I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..." - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.