Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

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

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  Work Out, Quality, Where You Come

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• Education liberates a woman.

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• By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

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  Voice, People, Community

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• My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.

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  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Parent, World, Wealth

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• I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

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  Fields, Documentaries, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent.

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  Beautiful, Religious, Song

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Issues, People, Sparks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe in telling the truth.

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  Believe, I Believe, Telling The Truth

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• 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.

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  Country, Issues, People

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Cutting, Organization

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Don't give up your dreams.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• 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

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  Girl, Mother, Dream

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

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  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Challenges, Special, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

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  Issues, Population, Film

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Boys, Afterlife, Envy

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

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  Country, Educational, Long

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

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  Government, Allies, Pakistan

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

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  Pakistan, Reputation, Ifs

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• An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

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  Dream, Awards, Nominations

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Events

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

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  Ruins

  "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: The Lifesaver" by Sarah J. Robbins, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2012.

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

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  Thinking, Documentaries, Whole Life

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• I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.

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  Daughter, Mother, Country

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