In My Mind The City

Having Come To Live In This Age Is As Though One Were To Have Entered Another Country. Learn Its Language Or Risk Being Left Out.

Must We Be Put To Shame By Much Smaller And Poorer Countries, By Ireland, France, Austria Or Sweden, Who Have Understood That A Nation's Support Of Its Arts Is A Matter Of Both National Pride And Cultural Survival?

Despite A Large Body Of Work In Films, Tv, Theatre And Concerts, I Am Viewed By Many As A Jewish Artist. I Do Not Resent The Label, Except For The Fact That I Disapprove Of Labels In General.

I Tried For A While To Be An Agricultural Worker And Was Hopelessly Bored. To Me It Was Meaningless. I Would Stand Around In Heaps Of Manure And Sings About The Beauty Of The Work I Wasn't Doing.

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.