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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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"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."
"The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice."
"I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
"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."
"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
"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."
"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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