Jay Duplass Quotes

I hope I inspire children to make films.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make.

I met Rajini sir after 'Jigarthanda,' and he said he liked my film. He told me I could approach him whenever I had a good idea. I had never thought he would listen to scripts from new directors. After the meeting, I wondered, 'Should I take his words seriously or not? Should I write something?'

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently.

The main thing for me is just the length of time it takes to make a movie. It's at least a year of just talking about it, talking about it with yourself or your director or your other castmates or the press, so you just want to make sure it's a film that although you initially feel this pull or this drive to it, you don't really have the answers to why you're drawn to it. But it's more about not knowing the answers to certain questions but wanting to go on the journey of discovery to find the answers.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I can't tell you why I choose stuff, it's really something I don't analyse. The only thing I can say is that a film has to demand to be made, I don't have a plan of what films I'm going to make. The only thing that I know now is that I'm not too crazy about doing things again that I've been into before.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.

All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.