We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

I think if we are at a war with an enemy country, that country is responsible for our soldiers' deaths.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.