You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.