Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, w….

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite..

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate….

It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't..

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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 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'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 ….

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….

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 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..

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 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 ….

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….