"I thought that fame was important. I thought having a house was important. That to have a car was important, not for material purposes, but for the purpose of feeling like you've achieved something...now my wants have to do more with kindness"
"The book is full of a sense of time and a sense of place. I think she talks about the feeling that time is shrinking and expanding. I think so much of it relates to how we feel about time and space and our bodies and sensation and memory."
"Sometimes the hero knows what to do. Tevye ain't that. The reason that he's popular is because they either see themselves, their husbands or their father up on stage."