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. Etgar Keret armyemotionexperiment share on social
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world. Etgar Keret characterfilmgive Change image and share on social
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. Etgar Keret colloquialcommonisraeli Change image and share on social
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. Etgar Keret compactcomplexsimple Change image and share on social
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. Etgar Keret agearmybreak share on social
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. Etgar Keret biblecoastereffect Change image and share on social
