I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

Character is a journey, not a destination.