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

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

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.

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

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

When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.