All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

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

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.