I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.