We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.