When Something Is Moving You

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.

You Cannot Please All Of The People All Of The Time, And That Is Truer In The Arts Than Anywhere Else.

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.

You Always Draw On Your Experiences With Live Audiences To Know How To Do Comedy On Films. You're Working For A Laugh That May Or May Not Come Six Months Later, But You're Working In A Vacuum At The Time You Are Doing It.

We Jews Have A Special Attachment To The Book. The Study Of Page After Page In Tomes Yellowing With Age Was Obligatory.