A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.