A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

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.

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 don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

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.

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

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