I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.

He epitomized that dissatisfied young teenager. He looked like the boy next door, but he behaved differently.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.