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

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

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

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

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

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.

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.