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

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.