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

Audiences are audiences.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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.

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.