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

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Audiences are audiences.

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.

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

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.

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