The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

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.

In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.