I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.

[citation needed] The story of the theft return and subsequent acquisition by Bell is told in the 2013 documentary The Return of the Violin directed by Haim Hecht. His father is of Scottish descent and his mother is Jewish (his maternal grandfather was born in Israel and his maternal grandmother was from Minsk). "[full citation needed] Bell then sold his previous violin the Tom Tyler Stradivarius for a little more than two million dollars and made the purchase of the Gibson ex Huberman for a little under the four million dollar asking price.