I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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

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

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

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

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.'

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.