Quotes About Conflict

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because I want nothing to do with them.

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

I don't think that the fundamental issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir, OK.

We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

We have been the one who all along have been saying that a dialogue must be initiated with Pakistan.

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I'm not sure whether the United States and Pakistan have the same objectives. Pakistan would like Afghanistan to be under its control.

I am so passionate about Pakistan cricket that I would never ever put myself in a position where there will be a conflict of interest.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

I get it that the media is going to show the worst part, because that's the part that people want to see. But they have not represented Israel or Palestine, however people want to call it, they haven't represented it well at all. Go to the beach! You won't know this place from California.