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This Kind Of Directing, I Think, Is Very Similar To Being A Football Coach. You Prepare Your Players And Place Them In The Right Places, But Once The Game Is On, There's Nothing Much You Can Do - You Can Smoke A Cigarette Or Get Nervous, But You Can't Do Much.

The [iranian] Government Grapples With More Important Issues And We Can Maybe Say That These Films Don't Really Exist For Them. It's Not About Whether They Like It Or Don't; It's Just Not Very Important To Them.

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.

In This Type Of Cinema, Whether Working With Actors Or Non-actors, As Much As You Do Direct Them, If You Allow Yourself To Be Directed By Them, Then The End Result Will Be Much More Pleasing. The Real And Individual Strengths Of The Actors Is Allowed To Be Expressed And Is Something That Does Affect The Audience Very Deeply.

I Saw This French Woman, This English Man In Italy. It Was A Film [certified Copy] I Knew Well, But I Had Already Seen It, And I Was Familiar With It, And I Had No Feeling Of Anxiety Or Responsibility Toward It.