You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

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

If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

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

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.