Zitat des Tages von Bahman Ghobadi:
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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 Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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.
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 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.
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
