Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.

It's not just the wounded who suffer.

Discipline has enemies, and one of them is you.

What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.

The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

It takes at least one to make a marriage.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.

Drama is something Im good at, I guess.