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 first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

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

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.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

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.