I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
Mandy PatinkinThe best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
Mandy PatinkinIf you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
Mandy PatinkinThere two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it.
Mandy Patinkin