Always Keep Your Dignity And Be True

We Can Only Feel Sorry For Ourselves When Our Misfortunes Are Still Supportable. Once This Limit Is Crossed, The Only Way To Bear The Unbearable Is To Laugh At It.

Culture And Education Are The Lethal Weapons Against All Kinds Of Fundamentalism.

I Don't Like The Word 'autobiography.' I Rather Like The Term 'autofiction.' The Second You Make A Script Out Of The Story Of Your Life, It Becomes Fictional. Of Course, The Truth Is Never Far. But The Story Is Created Out Of It.

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.

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.