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

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.

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 feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.