I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

The subject of the film is too serious for show business. There's enough anti-Semitism in the movie without bringing in a live example.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.