I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.