Quotes by Jehane Noujaim - Page 1

It's important in any project to remain focused.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Focused
Important
Projects
Remain
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I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Objectivity
Such A Thing
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I'm interested in characters that are complex people.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Character
Complexes
People
Complex
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Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Filmmaker
Kind
Spy
Glorified
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I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Dislike
Film
I Can
People
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Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Egypt
Father
United States
Al
Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Arab World
Entity
Proud
Watches
World
Al
Al Jazeera
Arab
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Filmmaking
Prove
Thinking
Want
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In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Challenges
Conflict
People
Surprise
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Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Events
Thinking
World
World Cup
Cup
Event
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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 / Film Director
Goal
Love Is
People
Love Learning People
Drop
Worlds
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It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Beauty
Capture
Creativity
Filmmaking
Hardship
People
Hardships
Opened
Shared
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You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Opportunity
Critical
Democratic
Foreign Policy
Principles
United States
Arabs
Associate
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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 not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Qualified
Social Life
Be Nice
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I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Cards
Credit
Credit Card
Fortunate
Stories
Card
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Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Change The World
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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 they felt that feeling of transformation.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Transformation
Strangers
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There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Arabia
Banned
Different Opinions
East
Egypt
Jordan
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Syria
Opinions
Saudi
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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 taken.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Fighting
Rights
Taken
Civil
Fought
Rights Movement
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There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Collectors
Community
Egypt
Garbage
Volunteer
Education Work Health
Communities
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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.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Bombarded
Bombarded By
Creation
Harder
Media
Relate
Thinking
Becomes
Constantly
Laugh
Terms
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As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Dream
Motivation
Moving
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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 had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Issues
People
Volunteer
Time Work Money
Debated
Dish
Work Time Money
Gather
Promoter
Satellite
Talked
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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?'
Jehane Noujaim / Film Director
Dialogue
Egyptian
Basis
Exact
Forth
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