It Was Important To Me To Make

The Fact Is I'm Not Making A Film In Order To Draw Pictures Or Make Images About Iran.

The Fact That I Do Place Music At The End Of My Films Is Not To Accentuate The Emotion. It Serves An Opposite Purpose Which Is To Remove Them From The Emotional Space And Allow Them To Enter A Space Of Thinking, Because I Believe That When The Audience Is Watching The Film They're Watching It With Their Feelings.

At The Time When Talk Of War, Intimidation, And Aggression Is Exchanged Between Politicians, The Name Of Their Country, Iran, Is Spoken Here Through Her Glorious Culture, A Rich And Ancient Culture That Has Been Hidden Under The Heavy Dust Of Politics.

I Would Have Had The Same Narrative, Regardless Of The Atmosphere And The Restrictions.

Iranian Filmmakers Are Not Passive. They Fight Whenever They Can, As Creative Expression Means A Lot To Them. The Restrictions And Censorship In Iran Are A Bit Like The British Weather: One Day It's Sunny, The Next Day It's Raining. You Just Have To Hope You Walk Out Into The Sunshine.