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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

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I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Actor

Born: May 2nd, 1924

Died: July 21st, 2015

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