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.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

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

Education liberates a woman.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

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.