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

One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.

I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

Seventy-five percent of Americans don't even have passports. We don't even think about traveling beyond our borders.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.