Hany Abu-Assad Quotes

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.