I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

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.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

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].

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

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