The Buddhas Had To Be Destroyed By

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.

I Was In Jail Four And A Half Years. When I Came Out, I Continued The Same Struggle Against Injustice, But Instead Of Using Weapons, I Began To Use Art And Cinema.

Rumi, Who Is One Of The Greatest Persian Poets, Said That The Truth Was A Mirror In The Hands Of God. It Fell, And Broke Into Pieces. Everybody Took A Piece Of It, And They Looked At It And Thought They Had The Truth.

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

Because There Is So Little Room For Expression Otherwise, A Lot Of People Love Cinema Because They Find It A Way Of Expressing Themselves.