Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning. — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world. — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
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… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it. — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
