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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

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"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."

Film

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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."

Society

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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."

Style

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

Afghanistan

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The style depends on the subject."

Style

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

Afghanistan

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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."

Time

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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."

Life

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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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