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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
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Mark Duplass
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: December 7
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mark David Duplass
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More quotes by Mark Duplass
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
I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and I get really proud and happy.
Mark Duplass
My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.
Mark Duplass
I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don't have to wait for anybody and that's more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don't have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply.
Mark Duplass
A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ on set. Part of it is that the shot goes a little bit long and they end up coming down to fit time.
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
I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm].
Mark Duplass
I'm pretty unfussy when it comes to what a TV show should be, or what a movie should be. A lot of people are trying to maintain the theatrical experience for films. That's not really who we are or what we're about. We come from this fundamental understanding that we're just blessed that someone is giving us any money to make something in this town.
Mark Duplass
We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.
Mark Duplass
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
I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.
Mark Duplass
A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.
Mark Duplass
I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.
Mark Duplass
A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.
Mark Duplass
I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, cave.
Mark Duplass
My wife and I have been together for many years and that, to me, is like endlessly fascinating and endlessly confusing how to sustain all of the excitement from the front of our relationship, valuing that versus the comfort and knowing that she knows all of my flaws and still loves me. It's great, but certainly not as exciting as it was day one.
Mark Duplass
Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.
Mark Duplass
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
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
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.
Mark Duplass
