Top 35 Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

Marie Rutkoski

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#5. It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

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#6. He cupped her face, his eyes mingling with hers. "Stay," he whispered. "Please." She could deny him nothing when he looked at her that way. When he spoke to her that way. They'd stay for a week. Just one more week. What would it hurt?

Denise Hunter

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#7. It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

Robert James Waller

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#8. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I

Pierce Brown

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 Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

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#10. 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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#11. I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

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

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#13. 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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#14. You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

William J. Clinton

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#15. An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Rose Henniker Heaton

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#16. 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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#17. In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Kurt Schrader

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#18. 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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#19. I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

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#20. 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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#21. Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.

Peter Drucker

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

Steven Pinker

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#28. 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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#29. What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

Dada Bhagwan

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

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#31. Huge numbers of people decided to take to the streets, some for no other reason than just to find out what was happening.

Wael Ghonim

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#32. If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

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#33. As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

Kristin Davis

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#34. Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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#35. I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

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