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

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.

Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries, although they feel like they really need it, at the same time it shakes the very fundament of the culture - there is always this challenge between the two.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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

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