Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

It was a sin. Kissing a guy who wasn't betrothed to her was wrong in every way. Everyone knew that. It was haram. Forbidden. You would go to hell for that...

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

Trees give peace to the souls of men.

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.