The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it.… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
In general, I think there are some things that require time before you can talk about them. Some stuff that happened over the summer, for instance - the Philando Castile shooting, Alton Sterling, the police officers in Dallas - there was no room for jokes. But there are, of course, the policies that have given us those events. Now, there's… — Negin Farsad Copy Share
I mostly want to highlight things that feel like an injustice, and that's not really political. No one is going to - or should… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious… — Negin Farsad Copy Share
We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context. — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that if you… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up. — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
We twist ourselves into knots convincing people that Islam is peaceful and varied before we realize that, wait a second, you can be a… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
