Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.

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.

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

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

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.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.