Quotes by Iranian authors
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian film director
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna
Polymath
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban
Iranian-American actor
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
I think the United States, whether you have a Democratic president or whether you have a Republican president, is bound by international law, whether some senators like it or not.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
Asghar Farhadi
Iranian film director
I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
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.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian film director
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian film director
I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
Navid Negahban
Iranian-American actor
Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Navid Negahban
Iranian-American actor
I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.
Asghar Farhadi
Iranian film director
The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
Nazanin Boniadi
Actress
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