I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.