I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the m….

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book..

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for wome….

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world..

Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's som….

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems..

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality..

We look at it as the multiverse. We have our TV universe and our film universe, but they all co-exist..

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..