I See Screenwriting As A Bit Like

It's A Mistake And Misconception To Think That One Has To State Everything Clearly And Simply For The Audience To Be Able To Follow The Character, And This Is What Is Bringing American Cinema Down From Its Position In The Classic Golden Period. There's This Misapprehension That The Audience Is Not Smart.

I Always Thought That In The Countries That The Modernity Kicks In Later, It Seems That Everything Changes On The Surface, The Physical Things Change, But Inside, Things Haven't Changed, Really. This Is Always The Challenge Of This Kind Of Community, To Make A Harmony Between The Cultural Traditions And The Modernity Of Modern Life.

These Days, More Than Any Other Time, We Are Worried About Our Personal Life, Our Private Life. When We Talk About Our Private Life, It Means Our Home, Our Body Even. It Seems That When We Want To Have Calmness In This World, We Make A Wall Around Us. This Gives Us A Very Calm Environment, And When We Feel That Somebody Is Intruding Into That, It Makes Us Very Angry And We Feel We Have To Do Something About It.

There Is No Privilege In Restriction. In Other Words, I Disagree With People Who Say Restriction Makes You More Creative. I Think That's A Misleading Slogan. I Might Have Been More Creative Without Them Than With Them.

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.