I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

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

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.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

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

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.