It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

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.

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.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.