Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Work Out #Quality #Where You Come
The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Government #Pakistan #Allies
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Daughter #Mother #Country
My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Ease #My Family #Balanced
It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Ruins
I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Thinking #Documentaries #Whole Life
I believe in telling the truth.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Believe #I Believe #Telling The Truth
Education liberates a woman.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Don't give up your dreams.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Dream #Giving Up
All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Dream #Giving Up
I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Anger #Creative #Persons
When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Mother #Daughter #Husband
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Boys #Afterlife #Envy
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Justice #Saving #Faces
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Opening Up #House #Stories
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Long #Boards #Gone
I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Thinking #Talking #Europe
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Country #Educational #Long
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Cutting #Fighting #Organization
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Country #Issues #People
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Parent #World #Wealth
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.Â If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Girl #Mother #Dream
Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Pakistan #Reputation
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Thinking #Challenges #Want
My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Issues #Population #Film
I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Home #Proud #Oscars
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.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Voice #People #Community
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of,
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Dream #Awards #Nominations

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