If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.