John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

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

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

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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