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.

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

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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.

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