Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

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

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 want women to be the subject, not the object.

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

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

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. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.