Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.