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?

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

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.

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face - it gives me a natural lift.

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?