I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.