Alan (on Abigail Breslin's Oscar nomination for "Little Miss Sunshine"): I hope she loses frankly. No, I'm serious. I am not joking. What, next year she is going to get the Nobel Prize? It's enough. She has had enough attention. I love her and I love her family; and I feel enough is enough. She is a kid; she needs to have a childhood.
Alan: There was music in our house all the time. My mother played the piano and my uncle was a pretty well-known composer. There were people coming over to our house all the time; they played guitars, piano and sang. Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Paul Robeson were all at the house. I met all these people. Music was part of our everyday life.
Alan: I'm not crazy about the idea of competition; I don't think it's healthy.
Alan: It's not enough for me to just be a personality and go up there and say lines nicely. I want to tell a story with a character.
Alan got his first paycheck for acting at the age of 14.
Alan's maternal grandfather came from Odessa.
Alan directed the Off-Broadway revival of Jules Feiffer's play Little Murders in 1969, and he also directed the feature film version in 1971.
Alan's Broadway debut was in the 1961 play Second from the City.
Alan began taking acting lessons at the age of just 10.
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