The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.