If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.