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

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.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

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

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

Audiences are audiences.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.