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

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, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

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 or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

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

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.

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

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 as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.