Education liberates a woman.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Don't give up your dreams.

When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.