I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

We're all stories in the end.

NEVER COUNT A SACRIFICE AS A COST

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.