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.

I think you get better as you get older.

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.

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

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.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

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