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

When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.

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 takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

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

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.

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.