Exercise? A Jew Doesn't Exercise.

I've Never Been Without A Dog. I've Made Trips Across The Country With A Dog. I've Been In That Angst Of Loneliness, Where You're Really Alone In The Universe, Except For The Dog.

Montreal Is A Very Cosmopolitan, Sophisticated, Erudite, Educated, Glorious City Today. But It Wasn't Quite That Way When I Was Growing Up There. There Was A Lot Of Anti-semitism. And I Had To Deal With That In An Area Of The City That Had Very Few Jews.

A Series Is Filled With Compromises.

Even One Word, Or Certainly One Sentence, Should Be Able To Describe The Basic Characteristic That The Scene Has, Or The Character Has, Or The Story Has. And Then You Begin To Detail That One Spine, And You Have Offshoots From That Spine, And It Becomes More And More Complex, But All Of It Stems From That One-word, One-line Theme, Which Can Give The Character, The Scene, Or The Play Its Uniqueness.

There's An Ecstasy About Doing Something Really Good On Film: The Composition Of A Shot, The Drama Within The Shot, The Texture... It's Palpable.