I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.