The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!

Intoxicating”— Shannon

Make a life while making a living.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.