A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

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.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.