“Cyrus” directors Jay and Mark Duplass talk their trademark shooting | MakingOf.com

“We’re almost like a documentary team in a lot of ways… Jay was on the camera, and I was on the microphone and we would just allow our actors to flow freely around our set… and we’d just capture it,” said Mark Duplass, one of the directors of “Cyrus.”

Jay Duplass spoke about their unique brand of improv, saying: “We don’t do the typical type of improv where people are creating jokes on set… We really try to get off script so that the actors have to be in the moment with each other… They know they have to accomplish that goal by the end of the scene and as long as they do that, we’re thrilled for them to do whatever dialogue or body language they need to use to accomplish it.”