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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

- Bahman Ghobadi
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Bahman Ghobadi
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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.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

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

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.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

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 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.

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