I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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.

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

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