Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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.

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

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.

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.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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.