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.

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 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.

If hate, the antonym of love, is one strong word that we all know it exist but despise, why do people like playing with LOVE like it's nonentity?

What are you worrying about? You are born to die anyway.

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!

The morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.