I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.
“I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.”
“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.”