People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

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.

It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.

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

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.