Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes
If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
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When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
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If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
