Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

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

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.

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.