In The Army You Feel Violated -

In Israel, There Is This Reduction Of The Political Discourse To Something That Is Very Limited. It's As If You Have That Pitch That Only Dogs Can Hear. Sometimes I Feel I Speak At Such A Pitch That Very Few People Around Me Communicate With What I'm Saying.

I Have To Admit That Talking Authoritatively About My Students' Stories Can Make Me Feel, At Times, Like An Astronaut Who Has Just Landed On A New Planet And Insists On Giving Guided Tours To Its Inhabitants.

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.

Before I Started To Make Films, I Didn't Give Much Thought To The Way The Characters Were Physically Positioned In The Story World.

Sometimes, When You Are In A Really Constrained Situation, It Makes You More Focused About What You Want To Say And Where You're Heading. The Most Beautiful Love Poems That Were Ever Written Are Sonnets, Composed In A Very Constraining Form.