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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."

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A.E. Samaan

"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."

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A.E. Samaan

"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The style depends on the subject."

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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."

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

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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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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 amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."

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

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