, and a plethora of Duplass brothers films, among others. For both her film and for this conversation, she recruited fellow friend ofJason Ritter. The conversation was as deep and tender as you’d expect, given these two wonderful souls.Paste Magazine: Jennifer, this is the first short that you’ve directed, right?: It’s the first thing that I’ve directed. And that was really the impetus behind wanting to do it. I had this story really knocking around my brain for a while.
I love what Jay and Mark say: When you go to film school, 5% of what they talk to you about is working with the actors and 95% is everything else. And they say it should be the opposite.: Totally. No, I mean, Mark has that great quote from his South by Southwest keynote where he says, you know, the cavalry is not coming. You are the cavalry. And I think about that all the time. I know a lot of people think about that all the time, where you have to make your own opportunities arise.