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

Quotes to Explore
-
When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
-
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
-
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
-
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
-
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
-
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
-
Mister Cee's a legend, man.
-
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
-
All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
-
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
-
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
-
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
-
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
-
Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
-
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
-
I would much rather feel comfortable and feel beautiful, than to feel uncomfortable, but look fantastic.
-
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
-
I selfishly like a lot of first-time directors because they over-prepare, they're super eager, and there's very little ego.