I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.