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

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

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 questions - and wounds.

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?

I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.

We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.

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. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.