The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
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. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
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. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
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. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read Quote
