Cinema is a world of imagination.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows - I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.

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