Cinema Quote by Nadine Labaki

I've never felt that my job was difficult because I'm a woman. It's a difficult job regardless, and it's even more difficult in Lebanon…

— Nadine Labaki

I believe everybody can make a change in the world.

— Nadine Labaki

I think of myself more as a director than as an actress. But I do like to perform and express myself in different ways,…

— Nadine Labaki

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

— Nadine Labaki

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again?…

— Nadine Labaki

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

— Nadine Labaki

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting…

— Nadine Labaki

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder…

— Nadine Labaki

I like to believe that my actors are not acting. That whatever they are doing, or whatever has been said, would happen in real…

— Nadine Labaki

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to…

— Nadine Labaki

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki

It's only normal for me to work with my family because I think they are talented and because there's a warmth when I'm working.…

— Nadine Labaki