All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen, and then I decide. That's how it works.

In celebrating Shostakovich, it's difficult to decide which works not to do. I've decided on two concertos ? the one for cello that Giora conducts and the First Piano Concerto.

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.