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I often ask myself, 'Why is i...

I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

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I love music, I make films wi...

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream, it strengthens my creativity.

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For me, its better to live wi...

For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

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I had seen some films made ab...

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

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For me, it's better to live w...

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

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I always loved music, and I a...

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

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In my view, the adults are th...

In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

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In Kurdistan, there's a lot o...

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

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In Iranian cinema, all the ly...

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

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Lying and corruption are in t...

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

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I didn't have the welfare. I ...

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

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I am really bothered when I s...

I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

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I love music, I make films wi...

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

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I use humour a lot. My founda...

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

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I can travel with music. I cl...

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

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Actually, the only thing I re...

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

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When you want to make a film ...

When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.

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I had no education in filmmak...

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

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I went to underground music s...

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

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I'm free - but I'm also not f...

I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

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