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.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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.

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.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.