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Jill Soloway Biography

Jill Soloway (born September 26, 1965) is an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer. Soloway won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for directing and writing the film Afternoon Delight. They are also known for their work on Six Feet Under and for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series Transparent, for which they won two Emmys.

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It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U. S. . There were Native Americans living here that U. S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

History, Interesting, Narrative, Native American, Struggle, Thinking

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

Art, Covert, Identity, Israel, Jewish Identity

I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

Dream, People, Secret, Support, Taking, Taste

If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

Awards, Body, Creating, Forever, Giving, Men

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

Differently, History, Holocaust, Jewish, Kids, Stories

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

Gaze, Male, Males, Men, Reinforcing, Storytelling

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

Beautiful, Gets, Incredibly, My Family, Stressed, Vulnerability

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

Husband, Party, Mean, Israel, Certain

We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.

Adele, Culture, People, Talking, Timeless, Trying

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.

Moving, Eye, White, Result, Female, World

So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the region and the Middle Eastern countries bordering Israel are Arab, which is a totally different society. Even though Israel doesn't exactly feel like the United States, by comparison to its neighbors it's very Western.

Country, Culture, Different, Israel, Political, Relationship

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

Friend, Hate, Life, Palestinians, Talking, Taught

If you go to Europe, public bathrooms have any-gender sink areas and stalls for everyone to use. This is completely reasonable. It potentially involves the destruction of the urinal industry, which I think people would be happy to see go away.

Areas, Europe, People, Sink, Thinking, Use

So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff. " And it sorta has seemed to be true.

Feminist, Gay, People, Sorta

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

Riskier, Surprise, Things, Way, Wilder

I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

Filmmaking, Men, Real, Straight, Thinking

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

Dreamed, Men, Rooms, Run, Running, Women

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

Leader, Female, Like, Leaders, List

Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.

Alone, America, Christian, Harass, Israel, Looking

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

Celebrate, People, Throughout, Time, Trauma, Traumas

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