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

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

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.