Jill Soloway Quotes

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.

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.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

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

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.

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

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

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?

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

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

There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.

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.

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.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

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 want women to be the subject, not the object.

It's really easy to do sad you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'