Camaraderie Quote by Elia Suleiman

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

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

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

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

— Elia Suleiman

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

— Elia Suleiman

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…

— Elia Suleiman