In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

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

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

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.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.