“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
“Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.” IfsWorldWantFilmJudgingAmbitionCrossesUniversalNotionChecksLocalsFamiliarLike MeBordersCinemaPalestineRight PlaceFamiliar Places 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 do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.” WorldHumansFilmViewsTeachArgumentPoint Of ViewHuman ExperienceLinearNazareth Author:Elia Suleiman
“I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.” WorldHumanityKnownIntenseConnectedness Author:Elia Suleiman
