Jill Soloway
Jill Soloway
Jill Soloway is an American comedian, playwright, feminist, Emmy-winning television writer, and award-winning director who won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for directing and writing the film Afternoon Delight. She is also known for her work on Six Feet Under and for creating, writing, executive producing, and directing the Amazon original series Transparent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth26 September 1965
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Jill Soloway quotes about
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.
'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.
Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.
My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.
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.
I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'
When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.
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.
For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.
It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.
It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.
It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.
It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
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.