I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

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

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

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

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

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.