When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.

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

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.

The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

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