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"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."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."
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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"
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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."
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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."
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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
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"Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted."
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"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."
Business
"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
Love
"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
"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
Truth
"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."
Movies
"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."
Work
"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."
People
"The style depends on the subject."
Style
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
Life
"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."
History
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