It takes one second to ruin a woman's 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.

He who has no dreams has no hope and thus lives in a hell of his own making - rjs

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.