Jafar Panahi quotes
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“If we could tell a film, then why make a film?”
-- Jafar PanahiSource : "Out Of Iran: This Is Not A Film Reviewed" by Jenny Horwell, thequietus.com. November 25, 2011.
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“When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.”
-- Jafar PanahiSource : "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.
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“You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.”
-- Jafar PanahiSource : "The Case of Jafar Panahi – An Interview with the Iranian Director of The Circle". Interview with Stephen Teo, sensesofcinema.com. July 2001.
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