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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.

We Always Have The Movies That Are More Toward Real Life, But They Don't Have That Much Drama Or Suspense, Or We Have The Full Of Drama Or Suspense, But They're Far Away From Real Life. Always When I Was Watching A Film, Films With Good Drama, I Was Thinking, "i Wish They Were More Close To Real Life." But When I Was Watching Real Life Films I Was Thinking, "well I Wish It Had More Drama." I've Tried, In The Movies That I Worked So Far, To Get These Two Things Closer And Closer To Each Other.

I See Screenwriting As A Bit Like A Math Equation Which I Have To Solve.

These Days, More Than Any Other Time, We Are Worried About Our Personal Life, Our Private Life. When We Talk About Our Private Life, It Means Our Home, Our Body Even. It Seems That When We Want To Have Calmness In This World, We Make A Wall Around Us. This Gives Us A Very Calm Environment, And When We Feel That Somebody Is Intruding Into That, It Makes Us Very Angry And We Feel We Have To Do Something About It.

It's Very Difficult To Talk About Religion In Iran Because Religion Has Gotten So Mixed Up With Politics.