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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
Actor
Film Director
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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I think when you write, you should call it a writing spree. I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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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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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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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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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
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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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Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.
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The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
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Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
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