Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

What I hate in movies is all those people you need. And then I realize I do better when I shoot by myself.

She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?