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.

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

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.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

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

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.