By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens...we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.

I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."