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

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.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Don't give up your dreams.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean threatening the freedom of others.

God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.