I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

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.

Don't give up your dreams.

They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.