Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

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.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.