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

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

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.

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

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

The hearts of everyone, the feeling is different Everyone in this world, the behavior is different The eyes are all the same.. But everyone's view is different.

Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.

She thinks you're stalking me.""Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

To a great night, a great Lanthorne.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.