Bahman Ghobadi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.”

“I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.”

“I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.”

“I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.”

“If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.”

“In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.”

“It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.”

“When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.”

“In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.”

“I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.”