I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
Ayad AkhtarIf you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.
Ayad AkhtarThe Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.
Ayad AkhtarI've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.
Ayad Akhtar