Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#behind #else #fascist #had #i

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#brothers #families #films #gradually #happened

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#because #claim #entire #everybody #hold

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

The style depends on the subject. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#style #subject

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#between #border #iran

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#films #i #i can #kind #know