I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

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.

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

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

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.