""Look, all I ever wanted to do was be a Coen brothers," Jay Duplass said said. "After I saw 'Raising Arizona' in 1987, I just wanted Mark and I to be the Coen brothers 2.0. We tried to be them. We failed. We got to do five movies in our own little documentary-style way from 2005 to 2011, but so many things co-opted that momentum. One of them is my brother becoming a famous actor.""
""Another one was we entered the mini-major world right when it started to decline. We made 'Cyrus' with Fox Searchlight in 2010. And 'Jeff Who Lives at Home' with Paramount Vantage, and things were closing up. Big marquee filmmakers started coming into that space, because that was the only vestige for them. And and then we started doing premium TV. We did 'Togetherness,' because it was a way for more up and coming filmmakers to make money doing TV and I got cast in 'Transparent,""
Jay Duplass returned to the director's chair with The Baltimorons, a Baltimore Christmas fable co-written with Michael Strassner, who also stars in the film. The Baltimorons won the audience award at SXSW. Jay and Mark Duplass have not directed an original movie together in 14 years but continue to produce and act together on projects like Togetherness and Transparent. Jay long aspired to emulate the Coen brothers and made five films between 2005 and 2011. Momentum waned due to Mark's acting career, the decline of the mini-major distribution world, and a shift into premium television.
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