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

I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

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

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

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 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.

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.