If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?

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

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.