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

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

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