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Whereas now Iranian cinema shows the Iranian people to the world. The US has tried very hard to make an entire people out to be terrorists. The Iranian cinema tries to say that the Iranian people are very warm and poetic people.

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf, president of Asian Film Academy

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As quoted in "Gabbeh and A Moment of Innocence: two films directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf" (23 September 2006)