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

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.

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Revealing of origin, evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.