I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.