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

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.

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 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.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.