What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

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.

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.

In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances.

Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Mirror sighed. "I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.