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"If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"

"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."

"The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead."
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"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."


"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."


"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."


"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."


"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."


"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."


"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."


"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."


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