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

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

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.

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

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.

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

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.