Makhmalbaf Films Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I do feel as if ... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts. — Kate Grenville

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. — Gianni Versace

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't want to be no more than what I am. — Joe Frazier

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem. — John Carroll

I took a little celebrational nap. — Renata Adler

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

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

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. — Aristotle.

Destiny is a gift, something to rise to. Fate is something to make for yourself. — Tera Lynn Childs

Deal with people from whom you can learn — Baltasar Gracian

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. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Adam snorted as he pulled on a faded green t-shirt that said "I Heart Coyotes." Yet another sign that folding my clean clothes wasn't too big a price to pay to make him happy. He didn't have any "I Heart Christy " shirts or I would have burned them already. — Patricia Briggs

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not. — Jose Padilha

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle