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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."
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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
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"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
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"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
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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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"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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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"The style depends on the subject."
Style
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"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."
Time
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
Life
"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."
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"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."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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