Audiences are audiences.

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.

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.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

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

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.