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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

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

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.

I think that Putin views Obama as weak. I think that there is a sense that he could put the troops in Ukraine because he knows Obama will do very little than what he's done at this point.

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.