In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

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.

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.