O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

The people who should be here aren’t. The ones who should be smiling with me aren’t here.