Jill Soloway

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

My sister and I created a show called 'The Real Life Brady Bunch,' which was sort of a theatrical sensation that got us attention in L.A. and New York.

People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

I always wanted to do a family show.

There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.