Amanda Peet

Well, you know, like once I started writing a little bit and when I was shooting the chair, which, you know, when I was behind the camera and all the ladies like Sandra Oh and everyone had to get there earlier and I could roll in in my snow pants with my mustache and my hair and just be and but still be the boss.

I was like, this is fucking great.

What have I been doing this whole time?

And it's really fun to have, you know, to have last cut, final cut.

Because I went to Friends in Manhattan on 16th Street and there was a teacher who was there when I was there who was really lovely.

And in the New York Times, it was in the New York Times, there was a huge mishigas because he was in a math class and he was pointing to something and he made a Nazi salute joke.

It was the teacher.

And it became at Friends Seminary at my Quaker school, this huge controversy.

Friends is a school.

Manhattan Friends is a Quaker school.

And it was the beginning of... That's a joke.

I like this idea of having a woman of color who was the boss of a...

white dude who transgresses.

And it was sort of the beginning of cancel culture and all that stuff.

And I knew this teacher to be a lovely, kind, Quaker-leaning human being.

And the fact that he's, you know, incited this whole controversy, I thought, this is such a good story.

It's a Christian denomination, but I feel like they're the greatest.

They really take the word literally.

So, you know, there's no priesthood.

You know, in a Quaker meeting house, anyone is allowed regardless of your religion.