You have to make it funny, you have to make it hip. You have to manipulate reality a little bit. I juggled with the facts. Apparently that rankled some people's sensitivities in Lebanon. You take an event and use it to your advantage in telling a story.
History is timeless in a way.
I don't know what it takes for someone to decide the story is ripe. It was difficult convincing investors. Some said the story was too old, some said it was still too recent. I have a responsibility mainly to myself. It just happens that this region that I came from, it's very colorful and stormy and conflicted.