The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

Time is the wisest counselor.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times