Hassan Blasim Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

  Hassan Blasim

  Art, Iraq, Busy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

  Hassan Blasim

  Running, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of some other security agency. They deliberately intimidated us. I moved to Kurdistan and changed my name and made my first feature film in Kurdistan with very basic resources.

  Hassan Blasim

  Agency, Names, Office

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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