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

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act. Although children are really into play and play acting, and this is a major part of their existence, they never actually find the playing or acting of adults credible.

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

We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

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

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

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.