Quotes by Gideon Raff

About Gideon Raff:

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

Gideon Raff

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 definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens ...

Gideon Raff

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 it's a guerrilla shoot.

Gideon Raff

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

Gideon Raff

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

Gideon Raff

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 ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to so...

Gideon Raff

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 politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Gideon Raff

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

Gideon Raff

Author Bio

  • NameGideon Raff
  • DescriptionIsraeli film director
  • Born1973
  • CountryIsrael
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award