When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.