Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.