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" For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food. "
Bahman Ghobadi
Better
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Live
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" I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. "
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" In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie. "
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" I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit. "
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" Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. "
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" I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films. "
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" I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries. "
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" I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope. "
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" I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. "
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" Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. "
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" I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way. "
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" I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music. "
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I Love
" In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others. "
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Generation
Worry
Plan
" I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut. "
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Doors
Problems
Back
" I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity. "
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Sleep
Music
Love
" I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming. "
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More
Had
" I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them. "
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Music
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" It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder. "
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Good
Film
Work
" In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director. "
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Hardship
Director
Difficult
" When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language. "
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Support
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" I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around. "
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Censorship
Film
" I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little. "
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