Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.