A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.
My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.
Thought is made in the mouth.
When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.