top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Style quotes
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today."
"I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself."
"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that."
bottom of page