“Sometimes I'll disagree with the smartest people I know. Are these acts of rebellion? I don’t know but it’s how I do things and I find that it works for me much of the time.”

“I view my future as being in Israel, and my children's future. And I view the future of the Jewish people here.”

“It bothers me that there's an unsolved problem and I latch on to two or three unsolved problems and I think about them all the time.”

“One needs to learn how to address that world because that's where it's going to be. And the physical, tangible this-ness of us is going to alter and I'm interested in that.”

“I'm in a weird position since I left, and it's a little maddening. People coming up saying, ‘Please run again, please run again,’ and I go, ‘Well, I'm keeping my options open.’ And that's what I say.’”

“I don't want to make my brand as a college dropout and then don't.”

“Something happened recently where comedians are taken way too seriously. I'm just trying to get a laugh.”

“I'm a Jewish woman who goes to the doctor, I assure you. I had a sister who died of breast cancer, the last thing I've ever told anyone, much less an AIDS patient, is that they shouldn't take their medicine.”

“I'm an American — that's what I do for a living — I tell our stories. Each film is essentially asking the same question: Who are we? Who are those strange and complicated people who like to call themselves Americans?”

“Look, my priority is my career. It's my public service, but I want to try to live as balanced a life as I can. I think it's better to start now than to start 10 years from now.”

“I'm a liberal, reform Jew from Duluth, Minnesota. Okay? I'm a cultural Jew. I'm not a religious Jew.”

“A hundred duck-sized Chris Christies, because I think vanquishing each of them would be so satisfying.”

“People don’t know how much of the meme game is speed.”

“What a horribly boring question that was.”

“If I got to get stuck with somebody from Long Island, it's going to be Lou Reed. It's not going to be Billy Joel.”

“You're just dreaming some LSD-infused thing from the back of your subconscious that paints and splatters things Jackson Pollock-esque on the wall of your brain during dreams – taken from all different places.“

“What I tend to do is I sit and I write depending on how agitated I get.”

“I just did a one-hour interview about Twitter, and I'm not even on Twitter.”

“We were really captured by the idea that casual forecasters are often more correct than subject matter experts.”

“It isn't so much that I organize a day, but it is that when I'm doing something, I do that.”