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…

- Elia Suleiman

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

- Elia Suleiman

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…

- Elia Suleiman

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, …

- Elia Suleiman

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…

- Elia Suleiman

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…

- Elia Suleiman

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

- Elia Suleiman

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…

- Elia Suleiman

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…

- Elia Suleiman