This Isn’t Pessimism: Interview with Sohrab Shahid Saless
Sohrab Shahid Saless
One can know the names and symptoms of many illnesses without necessarily knowing how to cure them. The responsibility of the artist who has some kind of social conscience is to put his finger on the wounds of the body of society. (...) Each country must have a cinema that corresponds to its culture, that is bound up with the socio-political problems of that country. But let's not forget that cinematic language is an international language.
Uddrag fra Mamad Haghighat & Rahgozar‘s bog ‘This Isn’t Pessimism: Interview with Sohrab Shahid Saless’, Discourse 21/1, 1999.