I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn't sleep a wink for those 40 nights. I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.

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