“There is no autobiography in cinema that is exactly the life of a person. There’s always something from the imagination. […] The easiest way is to compare it to food. A meal is created from several ingredients. Without the spices and additions, can you eat zucchini raw without cooking it? You have to cook it and spice it up. Drama transforms the raw material, which is reality, into something beautiful.”
— Hany Abu-Assad
Toen ik hem zelf interviewde voor het Parool (vanmiddag in de krant) repte regisseur Hany Abu-Assad met geen woord over eten, maar in dit gesprek met Gulf News vorig jaar wel. Abu-Assads nieuwe film The Idol is vanaf morgen te zien.