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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

"I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened."

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"I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened."

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Donna Grant

"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street."

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Donna Grant

"Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that."

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Donna Grant

"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."

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Donna Grant

"My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!"

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Donna Grant

"At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me."

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Donna Grant

"I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!"

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Donna Grant

"Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong."

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Donna Grant

"My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic."

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"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."

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Donna Grant

"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."

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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
"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."

Home

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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 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."

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
"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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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."

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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've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened."

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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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