Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.
It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength. If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams
I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
Mary is the lily in God's garden.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.