Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

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

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

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

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.

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

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.