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

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

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.

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

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.