The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.