When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you