I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but … - Elia Suleiman

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The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach. . . Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C. S. Lewis

Elia Suleiman

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.

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What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

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Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

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Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

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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.

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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.

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