“I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.” WorldTryingMomentsUseLostBehindsBoundariesIdeologyAttachmentPalestineMicrocosm Author:Elia Suleiman
“If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughMomentsFilmPoliticalNiceExampleEatingDinnerTheatreExtrasThemeUrges Author:Elia Suleiman
“I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.” WantIdeasSoulMomentsPleasureProduceNotionScreensAttachment Author:Elia Suleiman
“Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.” IfsThinkingWorldHas BeensIdeasCountryMomentsHouseBornNotionIsraelBritishNo IdeaRegionsThat MomentPalestinianBrainwashedOttomansCountry Houses Author:Elia Suleiman
“I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.” ThinkingMomentsCharacterStreetsToolsBackgroundsPoetic Author:Elia Suleiman
