Quotes by Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

Opposites

Psychology

Space

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 to the humanity around me.

Humanity

Intense

World

I do not teach history in my films. I don’t have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

Nazareth

Views

World

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 that aspect.

Aspect

Memories

Thinking

I don’t really know what people’s perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it’s about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

Art

People

Space

I don’t think there should be a Palestinian state because I don’t believe in states.

Believe

States

Thinking

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.

Character

Thinking

Tools

I don’t want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

Attachment

Ideas

Soul

I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It’s a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

Injustice

Moral

Thinking

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I’m not sure of truth.

Memories

Order

Trying

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Ambition

Army

Art

Aspect

Attachment

Authority

Believe

Borders

Camaraderie

Certain

Character

Cinema

Clarity

Coherence

Country

Crucial

Epic

Exercise

Father

Film

Focus

Humanity

Humorous

Ideas

Identity

Infinite

Injustice

Intense

Islamic

Israel

Issues

Judging

Just One

Living More

Memories

Moral

Nazareth

New York

Nice

Opposites

Order

Palestine

People

Political

Problem

Psychology

Reality

Resistance

Silence

Sometimes

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Quotes by Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

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 to the humanity around me.

I do not teach history in my films. I don’t have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

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 that aspect.

I don’t really know what people’s perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it’s about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

I don’t think there should be a Palestinian state because I don’t believe in states.

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.

I don’t want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I’m not sure of truth.

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