A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

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

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

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.

I think you get better as you get older.