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

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

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

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.