Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

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 move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

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

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.