Cinema Quote by Mano Khalil

“Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.”

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When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

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If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera.

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Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of…

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With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create the characters…

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Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government - not…

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Even if you make a movie about a criminal locked up in prison, you may not support him as a criminal, but you have…

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In all my documentaries, I have great respect for the people I work with. Really, I love them. And it's very important for me…

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It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a…

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I dream about going back, but I know that it isn't easy. Thirty years of being in Europe has changed my life. I am…

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