Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

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

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.

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

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.