Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.

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.

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.

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

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

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things change, but inside, things haven't changed, really. This is always the challenge of this kind of community, to make a harmony between the cultural traditions and the modernity of modern life.