There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.