I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

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

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.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

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

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.

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