I've Always Thought That, In A Sense,

There Are Some Directors Who Don't Like The Set Much. They Like Post-production, Where You Have All The Ingredients In The Can - You've Got All The Footage, All The Music, The Various Effects - And Then You Have To Do The Alchemy Necessary To Make It All Good, A Long And Very Key Process Of Putting Everything Together And Making It Into The Cogent Thing That You Want.

I Don't Really Know Of The Jewish Tradition Of Comedy, Only The Jewish Tradition Of Not Keeping Your Mouth Shut. Complaining About All That Is Hard, Unfair Or Ridiculous In Life-having Strong Feelings, And Not Being Able To Suppress Them. That, To Me, Is Jewish.

I Am Tolerably Ignorant About Judaism, And Much Of What I Do Know About It Seems Hard To Swallow, Because It Is So Grounded In Legalism, And Adherence To Rituals.

I Always Did Plays In School Because I Thought It Was Fun, But It Just Never Occurred To Me As A Thing To Do.

Most Of The Time When I Receive A Script, It Says Something Like 'rosenberg Is The Fat, Slovenly Mayor, Who Doesn't Want The Kids To Use The Skateboard Park,' Or 'stein Is A Pompous, Rotund Attorney, Imposing To All.' It Would Be So Freeing To Get A Script Where My Character Is Simply Described As 'a Man.'