It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

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.

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

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

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.

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.