I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

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.

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.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

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

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

I think you get better as you get older.