I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

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

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

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.