I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

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.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

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