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

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

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.

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

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