I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.

We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.

You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people