Top 23 Quotes by Jehane Noujaim

About Jehane Noujaim

These are some quotes by Egyptian author Jehane Noujaim Director.

Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

Jehane Noujaim

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Jehane Noujaim

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Jehane Noujaim

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

Jehane Noujaim

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Jehane Noujaim

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.

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.

Jehane Noujaim

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

Jehane Noujaim

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Jehane Noujaim

If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

Jehane Noujaim

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