If there’s a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it’s always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze. – Jill Soloway
I was running the show on ‘United States of Tara’ and ‘How To Make It In America’ where I could say, ‘Okay, I’m in charge of everything now.’ But it still wasn’t my show. – Jill Soloway
For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, ‘I wrote it. I directed it.’ – Jill Soloway
I am beyond excited to share ‘Transparent’ with the world through Amazon. They’ve been so supportive through this incredible process. – Jill Soloway
The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it’s kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing. – Jill Soloway
Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine. – Jill Soloway
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won’t pay for it, that is the artist’s fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive’s fault or the world’s. – Jill Soloway
The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of ‘Six Feet Under.’ It was called ‘Back To The Garden.’ – Jill Soloway
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. – Jill Soloway
In most shows, there’s usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy. – Jill Soloway
I took all my TV experience and what I learned about – by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance – about the realities of the independent film market: ‘Transparent’ is the marriage of those two situations. – Jill Soloway
I’m a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don’t turn on my computer for 24 hours. – Jill Soloway
I was the kind of Jew who’d be in a bar, somebody would say it’s Yom Kippur, and I’d go, ‘Really?’ – Jill Soloway
I’ve always been really interested in how people’s identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from. – Jill Soloway
The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth. – Jill Soloway
I think, because of the Internet, we’re not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be. – Jill Soloway
Watching ‘Girls,’ it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters. – Jill Soloway
‘Six Feet Under,’ for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way. – Jill Soloway
I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of ‘everything’s okay’ to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places. – Jill Soloway
For me, when I’m not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time – getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind. – Jill Soloway
Femininity in and of itself – and the feminine – can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped. – Jill Soloway
It’s a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren’t satisfying to straight white men. – Jill Soloway
There’s something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to. – Jill Soloway
If you’re female, and you want to express your femininity, you’re actually demonized in the ‘Free To Be… You And Me’ generation. – Jill Soloway
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre. – Jill Soloway
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies. – Jill Soloway
I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, ‘Yeah, you can do this.’ I wanted to direct ‘Six Feet Under,’ and no, they didn’t let me. – Jill Soloway