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“A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.”

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Dan Trachtenberg

Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker born on May 11, 1981. He gained attention for his short film 'The Ledge', which won awards at several film festivals. Trachtenberg went on to direct numerous shorts and commercials, and in 2014, he helmed his first feature film, '10 Cloverfield Lane', which was both a commercial and critical success. more

“Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.”

“It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.”

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Author:Edward Said

“These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.”

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Author:Edward Said

“Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.”

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Author:Edward Said

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