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.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

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

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