“New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.” — Natalie Portman Quote

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.