Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.