“I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.” Quote by Michal Rovner
“I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.” PeopleRealFilmIsraelRussiaParisParticlesSomething RealRomania Author:Michal Rovner
“Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is shown to you whether you want it or not, but all of the time you only see fragments of reality. The big picture we really don't see; it's kind of hard to make it up.” WantFirstsKindHardBigsRealityTodayLandscapeGreekFragmentsBig PicturePanorama Author:Michal Rovner
“We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.” SyriaRefugee Author:Michal Rovner
“I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.” WorldWellsKindNightFeltFieldsPositionDecidedEncountersSuspectsTerritoryEntering Author:Michal Rovner
“I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.” WorldKindWeightObservationConsideration Author:Michal Rovner
“The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.” TryingChildrenNight Author:Michal Rovner
“We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to be seen; they go out at night, they hide, they don't want to be shown. It's very interesting genetically that they have to hide from us actually. Between themselves, they smell each other, but there is this thing of hiding, of suspicion.” WantTryingNightAnimalInterestingDarknessKnowingSmellHidingSuspicionNot KnowingVery InterestingAlways Trying Author:Michal Rovner
“I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.” KnowsMorningNiceEveningPalestinian Author:Michal Rovner
“Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.” IfsSoulAbleNextAnimalCrossesGoddessNext LifeAnubis Author:Michal Rovner
“Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.” AnimalAliveCommunicateGravesGuarding Author:Michal Rovner