I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you fought and won your inner battle against fears and restrictions

May your spirit be strengthened.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Love could be instant and unconditional but trust develops through time. You may not trust wholeheartedly while loving someone unconditionally.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.