Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I’d finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

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.

There’s an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

The style depends on the subject.

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It’s a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

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