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

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

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

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.