“It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, '...” — Jay Duplass Quote

It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

I always tell young filmmakers, don't go make a feature. Make a short. When you're ready to make a feature, people will tell you. Your friends will tell you. Your fans will tell you. Festivals will tell you. Listen to your audience.

I do own a unicycle, which I use for workout purposes as opposed to doing tricks.

I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

I want my government to be transparent.

That's kind of the artist I like to be, transparent, honest. I think that's what I'm like in real life.

I just always want to be as transparent as possible.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.