The Day We Run Out Of Petrol

It's Not So Much A Question Of Whether We've Shot It Through 35mm Or Digital Video; What Is Important Is Whether The Audience Accepts It As Real.

In My Experience As A Director, I Think There Is Obviously Something Of The Way Men - Maybe That's A Common Point With Shirin - The Way Men See Women In The Film, And The Way These Two Characters See Each Other.

In Order To Be Universal, You Have To Be Rooted In Your Own Culture.

I Think Woody Allen Is Woody Allen, And No Matter Where He Goes He Still Makes His Woody Allen Films.

The Iranian Government As A Whole Has No Relationship With My Films. They're Not Particularly Interested, Perhaps This Kind Of Cinema Is Not Very Interesting To Them.