It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''
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 think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.
I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.
