Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

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

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

Life is a train, get on board.