Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

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.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

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 only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.