Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

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

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

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.

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.

When we fellowship with people, we fellowship with God

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174