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"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
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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."

"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."

"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."

"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."

"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 Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."

"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
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