I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
“My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.”
“I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.”