I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

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

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.