I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
Any place where the Jewish district is the hipster district is a very surreal and awesome place. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered ‘movies,’ whereas movies about women were considered niche and only appealing to women. This is to an extent still true, and what it does is represent movies about women as less profitable. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing – and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don’t have to contend with in editing. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy – or, at least, as it currently usually is – is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it’s too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
When you’re watching a Bond movie, if there’s a violent death, there’s something about cleverly chosen twists, or what props are used, or some way that he’s doing something that feels like an ironic twist, that feels like it gives the audience permission to enjoy watching it and to enjoy watching something that’s otherwise just brutality. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
Macro humor is just a person being themselves in a situation, saying whatever they’re going to say, and it’s funny because of the situation and who they are, or they say something, and it’s just so them. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
It’s become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there’s some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don’t relate to any of that. Susanna Fogel Read Quote
