Jehane Noujaim

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.