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 Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.

I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

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

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

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.

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 Jews in Israel for the second coming.