It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

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

The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.