I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then how do you visualize this? You create this character conflicted between two sides, because drama is about the conflict of two things, between your duty and your will, between what you want and what you can't have. It is all conflict between two things, and this is why you put your character in a place where you can visualize the conflict.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.