Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.