I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.