Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.