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

I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

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