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• Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
• Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins,
• I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry…
• There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
• The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The…
• It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out…
• I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it…
• But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
• But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
• Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
• I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

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