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
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 like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.
I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.
I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.
I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.
I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.
Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
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.
People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.
I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.
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.
I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.
Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.
To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'