Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth...We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

We can hope.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.