When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

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.

The stronger you become, the lower your voice become.

Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"

We are not always even what we are most.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.