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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

From Bahman Ghobadi

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.

From Bahman Ghobadi

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

From Bahman Ghobadi

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

From Bahman Ghobadi

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.

From Bahman Ghobadi

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

From Bahman Ghobadi

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.

From Bahman Ghobadi

I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

From Bahman Ghobadi

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

From Bahman Ghobadi

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

From Bahman Ghobadi

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