I grew up watching a lot of Egyptian movies. My parents had this huge VHS collection of every Egyptian movie you can possibly imagine, and Egypt was kind of the Hollywood of the Middle East back in the '40s, '50s,… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning. — Cherien Dabis Copy Share
I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because it requires enormous shifts in perspective. I mean, when you're directing, you're looking at the world through a wide-angle lens, and you're seeing all of it. You know exactly what's happening in every corner of it. You know… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share
I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I wanted to… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging my parents… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
When you step in to act, you just zoom way in on the longest possible lens and you're just totally in the point of… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious.… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
I discovered myself in the back-and-forth and in the hyphenated Arab-American way, and one of the things that I discovered was that I really… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are not those… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab city, a… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
