Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.