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

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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.

I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

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

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.