Don't give up your dreams.

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.

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

Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.