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

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.

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.

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.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.