I Myself Had To Grow A Longer

There's An 800 Kilometer Border Between Iran And Afghanistan.

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.

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.

The Buddhas Had To Be Destroyed By The Taliban To Get The World Thinking About Afghanistan.

It Was Really Bizarre, That Sabzian Business. You Know I Had No Interest In Being Photographed Before This Incident. But Then Not Just Sabzian—many Other People Started Pretending They Were Me! One Of Them Actually Got Married While Pretending He Was Me! My Face Became Publicly Recognizable Soon After I Decided To Have A Few Photographs Of Me Available In Public To Prevent These Sorts Of Identity Thefts. It Is Really Pathetic, If You Think Of It. Filmmakers And Filmmaking Is So Popular In Iran Because All Other Forms Of Expression Have Been Denied To People.