I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

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

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

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

She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

We got boobies!" the kid me said, gawking at my chest. "I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.