It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.