Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.

The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

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

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.