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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."

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"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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Akshay Vasu

"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

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Akshay Vasu

"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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Akshay Vasu

"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."

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Akshay Vasu

"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."

History

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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
"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
"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
"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."

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

Afghanistan

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"The style depends on the subject."

Style

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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."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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."

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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."

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