Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.