Close-Up has affected later films that I've made..

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive ….

With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assista….

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible..

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, ….

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death..

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema..

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it..

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does..

I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me ….

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. ….

When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they do? I do have children in ….

In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point with Shirin - the way men see women….

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in co….

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language….

In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then ….

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life..

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information..

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language..

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my wo….