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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
- Nov 07, 2020
The style depends on the subject.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020