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

The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.

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.