"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."

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Source : "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

Jafar Panahi

#Jail Quotes #Directors Quotes #Doe Quotes

“As individuals we are strong. Together, with God, we are unstoppable.”
“I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.”
“America must be burned! America is no good at all.”
“Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.”
“That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.”

Source : James Kern Feibleman (1969). “The Way of a Man: An Autobiography of James K. Feibleman”
“There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.”
“Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York dealers. So I already knew a great many of the dealers and the artists here. It wasn't cold for me.”
“When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'”

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