On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.