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I Myself Had To Grow A Longer Beard And Afghan Clothes. I Was In Danger Of Being Kidnapped By Smugglers, Though I Didn't Know It At The Time.

It Was Really Bizarre, That Sabzian Business. You Know I Had No Interest In Being Photographed Before This Incident. But Then Not Just Sabzian—many Other People Started Pretending They Were Me! One Of Them Actually Got Married While Pretending He Was Me! My Face Became Publicly Recognizable Soon After I Decided To Have A Few Photographs Of Me Available In Public To Prevent These Sorts Of Identity Thefts. It Is Really Pathetic, If You Think Of It. Filmmakers And Filmmaking Is So Popular In Iran Because All Other Forms Of Expression Have Been Denied To People.

The Buddhas Had To Be Destroyed By The Taliban To Get The World Thinking About Afghanistan.

When We Began Filming, These People Had Legs, But As We Were Filming, They Had Been Injured And They Were Brought To The Hospital To Have Their Legs Amputated, And That's Where We Found Them And Asked Them To Come And Be Part Of The Film.

If I Make Two Films In A Year, They'll Be Different. This Is My Style - I Can't Have Just One Way.