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

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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