Makhmalbaf Film Quotes & Sayings

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Confusion. Twentysomethings like Ian were raised — Meg Jay

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious
that is, a disease not understood
in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured. — Susan Sontag

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me. — Gavin Douglas

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. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. — Dorothy Hamill

I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip. — Penny Reid

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak. — Jerusalem Jackson Greer

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that's okay, love is better. — Caroline Paul

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education. — Arne Duncan

Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Icecloud, and Hazeltail. Leafpool twitched — Erin Hunter