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"Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
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"Heaven means to be one with God."
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"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
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"God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness."
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"Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil."
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"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."
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"I am, therefore there is a God."
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"Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods."
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"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
"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
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"The style depends on the subject."
Style
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
Style
"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
"I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema."
Art
"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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"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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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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