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.

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.

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.

Fear the sword of sin, it leads to death of the soul.

Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night.

We are all Michaelangelos.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.