“While making Better Things, I went back to the bones of my life. I wanted to talk about women who are aging and aging parents. I wanted to talk...
“The cameras and the stage, two things: they give purpose to the words, and audiences—like cameras—can always see the truth. Your existence is a lie...
“We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...
“The thing about getting older is you know more, and you’ve seen more. Unlike athletes, whose bodies slow down— for actors it’s an accumulation...
“Any useful diversion from someone’s attention to say watch this, listen to this — I take very seriously. If I’m going to ask them to take an hour to...
“I started reporting this book before we had children. In between, I often oscillated between reasons to despair at our politics and occasions to...
“In Gaza, every single facet of society has been impacted or dismantled from the ground up. It should offend every ounce of civility in us that...
“The thing about acting that’s important to me is— I don’t have to agree with everything a character does, but I have to understand why they do...
“What’s made this process so meaningful is how much it means to Native people. These beats of making history, they’re a lot for one person to...
“The new season of Abbott allowed me to trust myself even more. You hope your art is received in the way you intended it to be. And the first season...
“The Oscars are a diagnosis of the health of the movies. And the five to 10 films nominated for best picture operate as a class that doubles as an X...
“I’m going to put my time and effort into what I’ve continued to do, which is building ARRAY, building independent systems, building disruptive...
“Film is a medium where you are asking people to relate to it personally, so there’s an amount of projection that’s necessary in the audience...
As we say goodbye to 2023, a collection of passages from some of our favorite episodes of the year. Featuring journalist and podcast host Sam Sanders...