There Are Those Who Simply

When I Came To Know Theater, Drama Became Valuable To Me.

I Always Feel That A Viewer Has An Expectation About Every Moment Of The Film And Where It's Going, So If I Act Against That, I've Created A Twist. In Fact It Becomes A Kind Of Game With The Expectations Of The Viewer. This Is The Superficial Appearance. In The Layer Beneath There Is A Hidden Theme. The Result Of Each Twist Is That The Judgment Of The Audience Member Is Challenged.

Working With Children Is Very Different Than The Way In Which I Work With Adults. I Never Tell The Children The Actual Truth Of The Thing That I Want Them To Act. Although Children Are Really Into Play And Play Acting, And This Is A Major Part Of Their Existence, They Never Actually Find The Playing Or Acting Of Adults Credible.

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.

There Are Those Who Simply Want To Live Their Lives, And Feel They Cannot Live The Way They Want To In Iran. Others Are Ideologically Motivated: They Will Stay No Matter What And Try To Change Things.