Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Jafar Panahi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Iranian film director Jafar Panahi.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon (1995). The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes.

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view. — © Jafar Panahi
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
If we could tell a film, then why make a film?
When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.
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