▶ person; Jewish person; actor; film producer; film director; …
▶ "You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen."; "When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."; "Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."; "I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that."; "I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."; …"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."; "I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."; "First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."; "Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."
