For me, it’s better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
I often ask myself, ‘Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?’ The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
I didn’t have the welfare. I didn’t have the proper education. I didn’t have these things. That’s why it’s almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren’t publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
