I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

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.

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

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.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.