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

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

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

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'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 learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

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

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

What one does easily, one does well.

I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats a lead.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.