As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.