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"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
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"Use your greatness, love, and kindness to change the world."
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"Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it."
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"Everything is only a transition."
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"Every misfortune is a fortune."
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"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."
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"You are born with the power to change your life by simply changing your thoughts."
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"People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must."
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"To change the action, change thoughts first."
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"By changing-we become what we always wanted to be."
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"We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves."
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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
"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."
Success
"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
"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."
Movies
"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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