Hany Abu-Assad Quotes

• As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Reality, Filmmaker

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Crazy, Gone, World

  Source: variety.com

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• A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Thinking, Mind, Tools

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Art, People, Giving

  Source: variety.com

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• Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain to their people why they should take one side or the other side. But in the movie its doing the opposite. It allows you to have a Universal Experience. You don't watch it as politics but as a movie. You don't have different reactions all over. It's so universal a language. It's not a political language serving a political agenda. The language of cinema is a world language. With the Hollywood movie, it brings about the same reaction wherever it goes.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Country, People, Leader

  "Paradise Now Director Hany Abu-Assad Speaks". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 24, 2005.

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• You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Wall, Mean, Reality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  News, Knows

  Source: variety.com

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• As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Underdog, Oppression, Feels

  Source: variety.com

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• I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Jobs, Dark, Giving

  Source: variety.com

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• Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Character, Feelings, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Strong, Past, Humanity

  Source: variety.com

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• When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Dark, Reflection, Saws

  Source: variety.com

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• The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Simple, Important, Roles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then how do you visualize this? You create this character conflicted between two sides, because drama is about the conflict of two things, between your duty and your will, between what you want and what you can't have. It is all conflict between two things, and this is why you put your character in a place where you can visualize the conflict.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Drama, Character, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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