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Top 30 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes (2025 Update)

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “Don’t give up your dreams.”

1. “Don’t give up your dreams.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.”

2. “I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.”

3. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “Education liberates a woman.”

4. “Education liberates a woman.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “I believe in telling the truth.”

6. “I believe in telling the truth.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.”

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

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “All the women in Pakistan working for change, don’t give up on your dreams, this is for you.”

8. “All the women in Pakistan working for change, don’t give up on your dreams, this is for you.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “When you play music, you don’t need a language. Music is a language.”

9. “When you play music, you don’t need a language. Music is a language.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “Music is a universal language.”

11. “Music is a universal language.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan’s image.”

14. “Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan’s image.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “When I’m not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.”

16. “When I’m not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “It takes one second to ruin a woman’s life.”

20. “It takes one second to ruin a woman’s life.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.”

21. “The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.”

23. “My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “I’m generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.”

24. “I’m generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “I don’t think I’ll be making documentaries my whole life.”

28. “I don’t think I’ll be making documentaries my whole life.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

30. “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

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quote: “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.”

31. “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

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