Elia Suleiman Quotes

#1. 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.

Elia Suleiman

#2. 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.

Elia Suleiman

#3. If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.

Marie Kondo

#4. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

Elia Suleiman

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Elia Suleiman

#7. We are partly instrumental in deciding what we perceive by selecting what is significant for us.
Two people can be present in the same room and yet experience it quite differently. This is because we contribute our own meaning or our own interests when we perceive our surroundings.

Jostein Gaarder

#8. do not control everything that happens in our body - which

Jostein Gaarder

#9. I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

Elia Suleiman

#10. 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 moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Elia Suleiman

#11. 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 failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

Elia Suleiman

#12. I'm so surprised it's worked out that way. I was just thinking the whole time that I've never had the personality to fit into that. I'm not really afraid of it, because I don't even know how to play up that aspect.

Robert Pattinson

#13. 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.

Elia Suleiman

#14. My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

Robert Moog

#15. I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what's important.

Usain Bolt

#16. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Leonard Ravenhill

#17. 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.

Elia Suleiman