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I'm always going for truth and honesty.
All writing is propaganda for the self.
It will feel boring when you're bingeing.
I'm constantly confused about how to dress.
I want women to be the subject, not the object.
I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.
I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.
I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.
I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.
I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.
Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'
It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.
I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.
I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.
Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.
We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.
I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.
It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.
The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.
I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'
I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.
By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.
Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.
It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.
To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'
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.
I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.
Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.
I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.
There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.
My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.
I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.
My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.
It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.
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'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?
If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.