Quotes by Bahman Ghobadi - Page 1

You need a team that speaks your language.
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Language
Needs
Team
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Musician
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Base
Region
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Appearance
Foundation
Humorous
Tragic
Use
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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
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Permit
Studios
Underground
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Bothered
Doors
Iran
Facing
Shut
The Doors
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Documents
Film
Historical
Regret
Bringing
The Only Thing
Underground
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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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Atmosphere
Censorship
Specifically
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Cinema
Iranian
Lying
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Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Iran
Littles
People
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Filmmaker
Iran
Millions
Young People
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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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Producers
Support
Abroad
Speaks
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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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Censorship
Film
Wanted
Music Always Never
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For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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Over You
Phones
Worry
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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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Poisoning
Controlling
Food Better Your
Phone
Shoulder
Worrying
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Cameras
Film
Littles
Filming
Gained
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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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Approval
Work Good Your
Freely
Shoulder
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In Kurdistan, theres 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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War
Directors
Hardship
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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.
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Bitter
Hardship
Wars
Lifestyles
Witnessing
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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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Dream
Creativity
Sleep
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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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Love Music Me
Dream It
Strengthens
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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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Travel
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Believe
Children
New Life
People
Reborn
Life Hope Myself
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Welfare
Complex
Education Myself Me
Explode
Proper
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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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Burnt
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Documentaries
Minutes
Tehran
Music Always World
Music World Long
Flaw
Music World
Underground
Wondered
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Another Way
East
Islamic
Middle
Middle East
Social
Ask
Control
Come
Why
Myself People Way
Try
Corruptions
Countries
Often
Lies
Something People
Suppress
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Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
Bahman Ghobadi / Film Director
Break
Enjoyment
Iranian
Lying
Married
Research
Women Society World
Rules
Breaking
Oppose
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