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.

But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

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.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

I think you get better as you get older.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?