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

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

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

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.

It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.

Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

They make a desert and call it peace.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.