Jill Soloway famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As you grow and change, you become possibly someone else.Â You want to go back to your family of origin and say, â€˜Do you still love me? Would you still love me if I become X or Y or Z? When will you stop loving me? Is this unconditional love and if not what are the conditions?â€™
-- Jill Soloway

#Unconditional Love #Want #Do You Still Love Me
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
-- Jill Soloway

#Way #Surprise #Wilder
I want women to be the subject, not the object.
-- Jill Soloway

#Want #I Want A Woman #Subjects
By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
-- Jill Soloway

#Recognizing #Vulnerability
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Moving #Eye #Your Side
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
-- Jill Soloway

#Order #Way #Heal
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
-- Jill Soloway

#Real #Writing #Hard Times
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Gay #People #Feminist
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?
-- Jill Soloway

#Leader #Female
It will feel boring when you're bingeing.
-- Jill Soloway

#Boring #Feels
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.
-- Jill Soloway

#Men #Males #Storytelling
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
-- Jill Soloway

#Art #Break Through #Political
In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.
-- Jill Soloway

#Country #House #Done
I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."
-- Jill Soloway

#Jobs #Artist #Thinking
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Husband #Party #Mean
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Country #Israel #Political
There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!
-- Jill Soloway

#School #Artist #Feelings
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Christian #Israel #America
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Hate #Talking #Taught
I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
-- Jill Soloway

#School #Madagascar #Politician
One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.
-- Jill Soloway

#Israel #Doors #Ideas
It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.
-- Jill Soloway

#Art #Writing #Successful
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Dream #People #Support
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.
-- Jill Soloway

#Men #White #Creating

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