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.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

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

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.

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.

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.

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