I Really Think That I Don't Mind

I Think Life Is So Difficult To Catch, It's So Furtive, That A Copy, A Film, Can In No Way Catch It And Represent It.

I'm Not Sure That My Films Show The Reality Of Life In Iran; We Show Different Aspects Of Life. Iran Is A Very Extensive And Expansive Place, And Sometimes, Even For Us Who Live There, Some Of The Realities Are Very Hard To Comprehend.

Close-up Is A Very Particular Film In My Oeuvre. It's A Film That Was Made In A Very Particular Way; Mainly Because I Didn't Really Have The Time To Think About How To Go About Making The Film.

I Think I'm No Different To My Friends Who Are Doctors Or Businessmen Or Architects - We All Started Watching Films Of The Golden Age Together. But Whether I'm Making Films Or Writing Poetry Or Doing Photography, It's Very Much Rooted In My Sense Of Unease. And That's Really Where Everything Goes Back To.

I Wasn't Searching For A Common Denominator - I Started Wondering About The Challenge Of Working In Other Cultures. What I Reached Was The Sudden Acknowledgment Of The Universal Aspect Of Filmmaking.