"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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“My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.”
“I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.”
“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
“Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.”
“The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.”
“The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.”
“Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.”

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