Jay Duplass

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.

It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.

In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.

On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.

My wife is a social worker and a feminist, and it feels natural to me to have these relationships with these powerhouse women that I have had.