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9 quotes by Gideon Raff

Gideon "Gidi" Raff (Hebrew: גדעון "גידי" רף ; born 1973) is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter and writer. He is best known for the award-winning 2010 Israeli television drama series Prisoners of War (which he created, wrote and directed) and its acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland (for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012).
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Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy... →

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The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

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When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

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In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and... →

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When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them... →

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I'm Israeli and gay.

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Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

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The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

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Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because... →

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