I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

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

I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point with Shirin - the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.

Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.