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"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
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"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
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"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."
"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."
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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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