Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.