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

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

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 don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.