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.
The style depends on the subject. - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The style depends on the subject.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs … - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs …
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
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 … - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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 …
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me. - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
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 bo… - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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 bo…
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many o… - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many o…
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; fo… - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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; fo…
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.
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