Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
I'm working with fragments a lot of the time and the connective tissue isn't there yet. I think of it the way comics work. You have a block here and a block here, and there's this white space in between. Somehow your mind makes the leap to connect those two blocks. Finding a way to trick your mind into connecting those blocks is one of the fun things for me about writing. You can have those leaps that will emerge into something, if you're lucky.
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.