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

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.