What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

There's nothing more American than movies.

I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.