I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.