I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

When you cease to love, you cease to exist.

Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.

The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.