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

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.

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.

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.

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

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.