I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more ….

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..

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

I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, ….

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

I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I….

To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of m….

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 atta….

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just ….

Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are i….

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen….

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, wh….

If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the….

It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in….

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….

Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's….

I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves….

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

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me..

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistic….

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..