The Information I Have About Iran Is

Fear Has Always Been The Driving Force Behind All Dictators' Repression.

I Had This Fantasy That In A Democracy The Government Was The Population. So I Came To America And Got A Big Slap In My Face... Americans Were Not What I Thought. I Thought I Was Going To See Bastards And I Saw Nice People, Very Friendly To Me.

I Wasn't Made To Take Orders. My Grandmother Used To Tell Me: 'laws Are For Idiots.' She Was Right.

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.

I Had So Many Professions Before. I Didn't Want To Do This Particularly. It Just Happened.