This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.