I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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.

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.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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

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.

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.