You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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.

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

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.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.