People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?

The most you get is what you ask for.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

We have a bipartisan congressional task force against anti-Semitism, that's fantastic.

I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

The Kabbalists say that the holy one of the universe is broken, and that we are extensions of the holy one and carry that brokenness inside of us. Our task is to fix our brokenness and hence the brokenness of the holy one.

Even when I was a young kid, I always told my uncle that, when I became a wrestler, I wanted to be Rey Mysterio, Jr. and I wanted to wear the mask. I always pictured myself wearing a mask. I dreamed about it for so long. I wanted to be one of those luchadores who wore the mask, the cape, and the fancy outfits.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

I was recruited at Alabama and at Auburn to play basketball.

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

I was always a hard working basketball player.

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.