I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and read novels, because novels are more appropriate for series. Where as they should read short stories - that's the right format for you to be able to actually display the narrative in a film.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

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

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

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

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].