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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.