I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

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.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.