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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
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"There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever."
"Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence."
"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."
"My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington."
"Without literature, life is hell."
"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."
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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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