Jafar Panahi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?
-- Jafar Panahi

#Film
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.
-- Jafar Panahi

#Jail #Directors #Doe
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
-- Jafar Panahi

#Views #Directors #Looks

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

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