I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'