Moustapha Akkad Quotes

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

Moustapha Akkad

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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Barbara Corcoran
- Up
- Time
- World
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

Nancy Gibbs
- Women
- Kids
- Times
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Maimonides
- God
- Free
- Free Will
In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

Barbara Sukowa
- Good
- Film
- Stars
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski
- World
- Nature
- Future
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
- Happy
- Parents
- Car