For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

The moment that you have a child - that you know that when he'll turn 18, he'll join the Army and go there for three years of compulsory service - then you can't help yourself of thinking about the future - speculating about it, dreading it or even being - trying to be more active to change it and improve it.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.