I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.