I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.