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.

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.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

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.