Bahman Ghobadi

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. ”

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 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. ”

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder. ”

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. ”