Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

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

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.