Mark Duplass

The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

The realm of making microbudget stuff will always be totally in our control. Most of the time, we just pay for those out of pocket. Then there is stuff that's too expensive for us to pay for, and we want partners on, like 'Togetherness' and 'Animals' and some of our original Netflix movies.

I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.

Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.

As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.