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.

It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.

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

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.

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 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.