“The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.”

Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

Don’t shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.