Ziad Doueiri Quotes
I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
Kaufman, Anthony. "INTERVIEW: Ziad Doueiri, Director of Lila Says." IndieWire, Penske Media Corporation, 23 June 2005.
He was born in the Azerbaijan province of the Soviet Union and did most of his academic work in the United States. He is an example of a globalized scientist.
In revolutionary America, not only were the colonists divided into revolutionists and loyalists to Britain, but among the revolutionists, there was no uniformity of manners, ideas, norms, beliefs or any other element of politics and unity. The great challenge to America and one of its great strengths is its diversity which is not a consequence of recent immigration, but has been a characteristic of the American body politic even in the Revolutionary War. Even English was not spoken by everyone as there were French, German, Scandinavian and other immigrants who had settled in the frontier and rarely came into contact with people other than those of their own family and community. The notion of a specific American culture to which which some today believe that we should return, never existed to begin with.
Ziad Doueiri is a Lebanese-French film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), a film that was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards representing Lebanon.
