I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

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 a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

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.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

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.