At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

I love splashing the blood around.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.