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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف‎, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.

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

Afghanistan, Taliban, Thinking, World

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Afghanistan, Film, Films, History, Iran, Made

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

Afghan, Beard, Clothes, Smugglers, Time

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

Country, Know, Numbers, World, Years

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Alone, Easy, Live, Living My Life, People

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Cinema, Expression, People, Way

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

Film, Found, Legs, People

The style depends on the subject.

Depends, Style, Subject, Subjects

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

800, Afghanistan, Border, Borders, Iran

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.

Artist, Kind, Movies, People, Tell

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

Alone, Like, Morning, Night, Reading

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

Style, Two, Way, Year, Years

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

Afghan, Afghanistan, Complex, Complexity, Culture, Reason