Jill Soloway’s Amazon Video series “Transparent” has been an award-winning success for the tech giant’s streaming service. During an appearance at Code Conference on Wednesday, the writer recounted how CEO Jeff Bezos has even offered guidance on Soloway’s artistic and social pursuits.
“I’m obsessed with a movement for women, people of color, queer people, and an intersectional power movement. I think about revolution all the time,” Soloway said they told Bezos during a meeting at the Golden Globes. “How do I square that with my TV and filmmaking ambitions?”
Bezos told Soloway they are the same thing, according to Recode.
“The way that a story can make change is so much faster than the way that politics can make change,’” Bezos said, according to Soloway. “You create culture that has a story in it that says something as radical as ‘trans people are people’ and then laws follow.”
According to Variety, Soloway found the exchange to be a drastic shift from the traditional culture of television.
“After developing 10 years with networks, I would do rewriting just to make people happy,” Soloway recounted. “Slowly but surely everything turned into something I really didn’t believe in. Your vision gets dissipated.”
Soloway’s latest vision for Amazon is “I Love Dick.” The first season is available now on Amazon Prime.
Listen to a podcast replay of Soloway’s appearance at Code here.
