Behinds Quote by Alexander Siddig

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

— Alexander Siddig

Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the 'Naked Gun' movies, there was always this stereotype about how…

— Sami Zayn

Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories…

— Lexi Alexander

I think it's time we start chipping away at the stereotypes in Hollywood about the Middle East, and the Arab World, because it's one…

— Mena Massoud

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

— William S. Burroughs

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

— Alex Jones

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever…

— Bassem Youssef

It's moving in the right direction for Arab actors but very slowly.

— Haaz Sleiman

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you…

— Jonathan Demme

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on…

— Marwan al-Muasher

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the…

— Tony Shalhoub

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions…

— Busta Rhymes