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.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

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.