I Believe There's Only Good Cinema And

This Concept That You Refer To In Buddhism Is Something I've Been Nurtured With Through The History Of My Country For 700, 800 Years - Persian Poets And Philosophers Haven't Said Anything Different With Regard To Experiencing Life In The Moment, As Opposed To The Belief Of Permanence.

The Starting Point And The Ending Point Are Nothing But Two Arbitrary Choices. You Make Them As In Soccer Games, Where They Chose That It's 90 Minutes, Not Less And Not More. But The Choices Are The Responsibility Of The Filmmaker. You Have To Choose To Join The Story At An Arbitrary Point, And You Leave It At An Arbitrary Point.

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 The End Result Will Be Much More Pleasing. The Real And Individual Strengths Of The Actors Is Allowed To Be Expressed And Is Something That Does Affect The Audience Very Deeply.

I Often Say To My Students In Workshops That If They Are Trying To Find Literary Inspiration, They Should Not Go And Read Novels, Because Novels Are More Appropriate For Series. Where As They Should Read Short Stories - That's The Right Format For You To Be Able To Actually Display The Narrative In A Film.

It's True That The Best Way Of Knowing Yourself Is To Put Yourself Into Different Situations.