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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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.
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 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.
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.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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.
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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.
