Bahman Ghobadi Quotes
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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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.
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Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.
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Who does understand life?
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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.
