The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded. . . . Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908. . . his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in different neighborhoods. "This person here was prosecuted. " "This person was sent to this concentration camp. " "A family of Jews lived here. They took over his business. " Little, very discrete, very dignified plaques are everywhere.
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.
What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?
I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.