Bacha Quotes

#1. When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Julia Bacha

#2. When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

Julia Bacha

#3. I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets ... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

Dorothy Parker

#4. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. 'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

Kimberly Elise

#6. Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Julia Bacha

#7. It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones
I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd never admit it.

Neal Shusterman

#8. History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha

#9. If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Julia Bacha

#10. Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

Gabrielle Zevin

#11. It was not a windy day, my hair always looks like that.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#12. Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Julia Bacha

#13. Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Julia Bacha

#14. Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Dennis Brown

#15. At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

Julia Bacha

#16. Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Julia Bacha

#17. Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Julia Bacha

#18. I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

Josie Maran

#19. A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

Julia Bacha

#20. For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

Julia Bacha