I won't do something just for the sake of working.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

I am not a woman staying at home.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

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.