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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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“If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.”
“For every 1 fan I have 20 haters, once I can reach 1000 haters for 1 fan, I know I've made it.”
“I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.”

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“Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.”
“Iâ€™m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life acrossâ€”not to just depict lifeâ€”or criticize itâ€”but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You canâ€™t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you canâ€™t believe in it. Things arenâ€™t that way.”
“I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.”
“I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.”
“From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.”

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