In America, everything is big and more like a jungle.

It's always nice to meet friends of friends.

I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.

I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

I kind of feel connected to all places at the moment, and I've done very interesting projects in both places (Israel and America).

However, obviously Israel is a much smaller place in terms of population. There are only 6 million people in Israel, where there might be 6 million people in one city in America.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

I'm very picky and I'm very critical.

I also like Juliette Lewis - I think she's great.

Feelings demand living space.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.