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24 quotes by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف , Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a jury in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar, and his latest film is the The President. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The...
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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... →

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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.

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The style depends on the subject.

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There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

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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... →

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If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

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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... →

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Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

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Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

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But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

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The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

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The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to... →

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