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.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

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

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

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

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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