Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.