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

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.

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

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.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.