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.

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

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.

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

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

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.