This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.