Quotes by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy - Page 1

Don't give up your dreams.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Dream
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
Your Dreams
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Education liberates a woman.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Liberates
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Music is a universal language.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Language
Music Is
Universal Language
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I believe in telling the truth.
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Believe
I Believe
Telling The Truth
Truth Believe I Believe
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It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
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Ruin
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An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Dream
Awards
Nominations
Academy Award
Award
Nomination
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I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Documentaries
Thinking
Whole Life
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My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Balanced
Ease
My Family
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I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Home
Pakistan
Proud
Bringing
Oscar
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When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Language
Needs
Play
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The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
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Government
Allies
Pakistan
Policies
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Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Destroyed
Ifs
Pakistan
Reputation
Improved
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All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Dream
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
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I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Anger
Angry
Angry Person
Creative
Persons
Channel
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When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Daughter
Ease
Husband
Mother
Spending
Spending Time
Puts
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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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Contributing
Parent
Upbringing
Wealth
World
Education Good World
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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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Quality
Appreciated
Matter
Where You Come
Work Out
Work Will Matter
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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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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 / Journalist
Challenges
Events
Status Quo
Thinking
Timely
Topics
Challenge
Event
Happening
Quo
Status
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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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Caught
Circumstances
Difficult Circumstances
Film
Highlighting
Issues
Marginalized
Motivated
Population
Affect
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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 / Journalist
Justice
Stories
Survivor
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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 / Journalist
Seeking
Treatment
Attacks
Pursuing
Survivors
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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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Documentaries
Fields
Film
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As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.
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Filmmaker
Projects
Shooting
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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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Community
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary People
People
Screens
Voice
Time Change Hope
Affect
Bringing
Change Time Hope
Change Hope Time
Voices
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By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.
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Beautiful
Giving
People
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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.
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Approved
Boards
Canada
Funding
Long
Paperwork
Topics
Time Long Difficult
Board
By The Time
Topic
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The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.
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Sister
Ceremony
Flight
Catch
Emmy
Won
Passed
Received
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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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Challenges
Special
Stories
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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
Connections
Country
Mother
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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.
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Approach
Aspire
December
House
Nonfiction
Opening
Opening Up
Change Will Way
Change Way Will
Thousands
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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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Bleeding
Clean
Cutting
Fighting
Lines
Organization
Taliban
Adding
Front Lines
Multiply
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Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.
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Art
Space
Tasks
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There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.
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Brazil
Dichotomy
Hometown
Pakistan
Parallels
Slums
Exists
Follows
Similar
Themes
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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
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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 / Journalist
Boiling
Ideological
Muslim World
Pakistan
Talking
Thinking
Turkeys
Divide
Muslim
Turkey
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The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Freedom Of Expression
Fundamentalism
Pakistan
Terrorism
Express
Geared
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Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.
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Citizens
Civilians
Pakistan
Taliban
Terrorist
Attacks
Coherent
Unlike
Radicals
Thousands
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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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Country
Educational
Improving
Long
Projects
Time Start Long
Time Long Country
Businesses
Time Long Start
Economically
Returning
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There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Editing
Editors
Unique
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When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.
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Law
Musical
Order
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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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Afterlife
Boys
Bread
Charity
Colleagues
Dry
Envy
Harsh
Rely
Taliban
Treatment
Eager
Join
Ranks
Sign
Subjected
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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
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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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Dream
Girl
Mother
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I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Journalist
Musical
Past
Sunday
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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
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