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Cherien Dabis

(1976) Film Director

19 quotes in 91 categories

Cherien Dabis is a film director.

Quick Facts About Cherien Dabis

Born: January 1, 1976
Profession: Film Director

About Cherien Dabis

[Wikidata] Palestinian film director... | [Wikipedia] Cherien Dabis is a Palestinian-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She was named one of Variety magazine's 10 Directors to Watch in 2009, and in 2010 received a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. In 2022, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Direct

Quotes by Cherien Dabis

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film…

Film

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I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because…

Direct

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I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate…

Character

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When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I…

Cinema

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I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging…

Age

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From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV…

Acting

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It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that…

Empathy

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When you step in to act, you just zoom way in on the longest possible lens and you're just totally in the…

Care

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I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while,…

Cinema

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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…

Fit

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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…

Cinema

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Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab…

Different

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Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.

Doubt

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I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to…

Adopted

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On the American side, some of the movies that I watched when I was a kid, like E.T. or The Wizard of…

Changed

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I grew up watching a lot of Egyptian movies. My parents had this huge VHS collection of every Egyptian movie you can…

Cinema

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An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now."

Interesting

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I have to try to watch myself and give myself feedback. People would take for granted that I was ready to go…

Feedback

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I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in…

Ancient

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