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. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
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… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
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… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
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… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
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… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite. — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
