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.'

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.