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

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.

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.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Since you stand in the same bridge with him why don't you two just jump off.

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.