I don't even own a cell phone.
I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
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.
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.
What this anger hides is grief. . . the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.