"You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view."

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Source : "The Case of Jafar Panahi – An Interview with the Iranian Director of The Circle". Interview with Stephen Teo, sensesofcinema.com. July 2001.

Jafar Panahi

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“But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.”
“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”
“Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.”
“I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
“I had two options One was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.”
“This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.”

Source : "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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