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Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
Actor
Film Director
Pedagogue
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Writer
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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Etgar means challenge. And my family name is Keret, which means urban. So my name is urban challenge. My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny? My mother would say, Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it.
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I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
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In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
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In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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