“If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes hard...” — Jehane Noujaim Quote

“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.”

“I'm interested in characters that are complex people.”

“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?'”

“Well, I live in the U.K. in 2017 and I'm like every woman in this country who flips through supplements and magazines - I'm bombarded with pictures of so-called perfection.”

“I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.”

“You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.”