I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

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

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

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.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Vampires, bringing America together!

Men's evil manners live in brass

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side.

It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?