One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

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.

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

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.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.