I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.