I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

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

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.