It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.

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.

The greatest thing is to live a daring life.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

I don't have a lot of downtime.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.