I've Often Noticed That We Are Not

I Have Received The Digital Camera As A Blessing. It Has Really Changed My Life As A Filmmaker, Because I Don't Use My Camera Anymore As A Camera. I Don't Feel It As A Camera. I Feel It As A Friend, As Something That Doesn't Make An Impression On People, That Doesn't Make Them Feel Uncomfortable, And That Is Completely Forgotten In My Way Of Approaching Life And People And Film.

I Can Only Display What I've Been Nurtured With, Which Is This Worldview Which Has Become My View. If I Displayed Anything Different From It In My Work, I Wouldn't Deserve This Heritage.

The Day We Run Out Of Petrol Is The Day Iran Will Be Free.

I Never Intended To Write Poems, Nor To Be A Photographer, Nor To Be A Film-maker. I Just Took Many, Many Pictures And I Would Put Them In An Album, And Then Some Years Later I Decided To Show Them And Suddenly I Was Called A Photographer. Same Thing With My Poetry. They're Notes That I'd Written In A Book And It May Be Considered Poetry.

My Last Experience Of Film-making Was Tickets, A Three-episode Film In Italy, The Third Of Which Is Directed By Myself. It's Not For Me To Judge Whether It's A Good Film Or A Bad Film, But What I Could Say Is That Nobody Had A Cultural Or Linguistic Issue With What Was Produced.