"I believe that we need to have more dialogue and understanding between different cultures, and that art and culture can play an important role in bringing people together"
"I think that every movie should have some form of a message, and what makes a film good is not just the entertainment factor, but also the values and ideas that it presents"
"It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more"
"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message"
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me"
