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

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

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

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.

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

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