My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.