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.

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.

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.

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.

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt.

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.