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.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

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.

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.

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.