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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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Aberjhani

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody."

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Aberjhani

"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility."

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Aberjhani

"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."

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Aberjhani

"They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger."

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Aberjhani

"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."

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Aberjhani

"The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."

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Aberjhani

"We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs."

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Aberjhani

"I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards."

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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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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

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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."

Work

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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 style depends on the subject."

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

Life

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