Image Is An International Language.

Image Is An International Language.

Maybe The Biggest Problem Is That There's No Empathy. Nobody Puts Themselves In The Place Of Others. Everyone Thinks They Are The Only One To Suffer. Or That They're The Only Ones Who Like Ice Cream Or Take Their Kids On Vacation.

As A Director, You Have To Understand What Is Happening - If I Don't Understand It, You Can't Make Changes.

There Are Things That I Love In Iranian Cinema And Things That I Don't. In Iranian Cinema, You Have To Use Metaphor Because You Are Living Under A Dictatorship.

Words Also Are Filters. They Have To Be Translated. Even In The Original Language, There Is Interpretation And Some Ambiguity. If There's A Cultural Difference Between The Writer And The Reader, That Might Come Out In Words. But With Pictures, There's More Efficiency.