Across Quote by Jehane Noujaim

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

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

— Jehane Noujaim

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

— Jehane Noujaim

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

— Jehane Noujaim

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

It's important in any project to remain focused.

— Jehane Noujaim

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

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

— Jehane Noujaim

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

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

— Jehane Noujaim

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

— Jehane Noujaim

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