5 Quotes by Moustapha Akkad

I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.

For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

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

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.