Director Michael Mailer (son of novelist Norman Mailer) was criticized by a nonprofit foundation for casting Alec Baldwin as a sightless man in this film. Mailer responded by pointing out how difficult it is to finance an independent film and that there was no chance of "Blind" being made without a name actor. Mailer also stated: "My father Norman Mailer, an active voice against the fascistic tendencies present in America’s oft-fragile democracy, wrote many novels set in lands to which he had no physical or hereditary relationship. Because he was not Egyptian or German by birth, did he have no business writing about ancient Egypt and Hitler’s youth? Art and political correctness rarely mix. And that’s kind of the point. But when the requirement to be PC stifles freedom of expression, a line has been crossed."
