What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

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.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.