I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.