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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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A.E. Samaan

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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A.E. Samaan

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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A.E. Samaan

"Conscience is God present in man."

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A.E. Samaan

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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A.E. Samaan

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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A.E. Samaan

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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A.E. Samaan

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

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A.E. Samaan

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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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."

Business

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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

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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."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The style depends on the subject."

Style

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

Afghanistan

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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."

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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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