My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.