 You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. |
| You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits. |
| We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. |
| I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. |
| For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. |
| I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. |
| 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. |
| Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? |
| Audiences are audiences. |
