Bahman Ghobadi

“Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.”

“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.”

“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.”