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.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

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

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

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

At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.

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.