As you grow and change, you become possibly someone else. You want to go back to your family of origin and say, ‘Do you still love me? Would you stil….

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Je….

It will feel boring when you're bingeing..

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Mad….

So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, jus….

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative..

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal..

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?.

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the mo….

In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the D….

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise..

If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men.….

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others..

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political..

It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successf….

It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settl….

So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the region and the Mi….

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's you….

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and n….

One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questi….

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my compu….