When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

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.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

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