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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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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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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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Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
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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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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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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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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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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
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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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I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
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There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.
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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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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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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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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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