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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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"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."
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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."
History
"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
"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."
Change
"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
"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
"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
"Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends."
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"The style depends on the subject."
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