I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

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