Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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.

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

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

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.