"I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker."

-- Elia Suleiman

#Film Quotes #Palestine Quotes #Just One Quotes

“The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.”
“The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.”
“I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.”
“Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.”
“Whores donâ€™t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds donâ€™t build nests on a tree that doesnâ€™t bear fruits.”
“Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.”
“First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.”
“I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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