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.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically.

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 attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.