If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

Life's hard, then you die.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.