“It is important for women to do something about what they see.”

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

“Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.”

“Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.”

“It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.”

“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.”