"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."

-- Elia Suleiman

#Ambition Quotes #Judging Quotes #Borders Quotes

“I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.”
“Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because thatâ€™s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.”
“Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.”
“I've been burned a few times by people I've once considered good friends. When I call someone my "friend," I open up and share my entire life with them. That always makes me feel a little vulnerable, but I just love the idea of people mutually opening up to each other and sharing wisdom and life experiences together.”
“To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.”
“The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.”
“Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.”
“People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.”

Source : Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

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