At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie. Mark Duplass More Quotes by Mark Duplass More Quotes From Mark Duplass No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy. Mark Duplass chance want giving I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story structure. Part of my success as an actor, is that I know story well. Part of my success as a director, is how well I know story. Same thing, as a producer. It all begins and ends with me as a story creator. But, I love doing it all. Mark Duplass causes skills directors There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends. Mark Duplass no-excuses weekend film For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work. Mark Duplass Jay [Duplass] and I normally just sit around and people watch, and we talk about things that are happening in our lives, or with people that we've met. That's the soup from which our movies usually come from. Mark Duplass soup watches people I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big. Mark Duplass risk winning philosophy Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so. Mark Duplass bills humanity thinking When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then you let your instinct guide you. That's how we made art when we were 15 years old. And that's so fun to us. Mark Duplass writing fun art We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all, then shoot them all, then edit them all. So we have to just get ahead on those scripts basically. Mark Duplass different done writing If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form. Mark Duplass documentaries narrative tvs Well, I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't know you're playing a moment that's going to be in a montage. Sometimes it's a scene that didn't work out the way you hoped it would be and ends up in a montage. Mark Duplass work-out would-be way We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish. Mark Duplass accomplish goal We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not. Mark Duplass baby kids looks I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story. Mark Duplass cameras stories thinking Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama. Mark Duplass somewhere-in-time five made I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging. Mark Duplass four challenges character I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them. Mark Duplass limited-resources used fighting When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful. Mark Duplass helpful opinion fun I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself. Mark Duplass second-guessing guessing moving We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot of each of our lead characters driving in the car looking happy, looking moderately blank and looking sad." Because we know we're going to need these things. Mark Duplass car stuff character
