There's An 800 Kilometer Border Between Iran

From My Films, You Can At Least Learn About Iran, You Can Get A Sense Of The History And The Society. But No Such Films Have Been Made About Afghanistan, So You Really Can't Know Much About It.

Usually People Like To Categorise Artists. With My Films, I Categorise People: If I Know Which One Of My Movies You Like, I Can Tell Which Kind Of A Person You Are.

I'm Not Playing Myself. It's A Symbolic Situation, Where I Want To Introduce A Fascist Behind The Table. I Couldn't Have Had Anybody Else Do That; For It To Be Successful, I Had To Do It Myself.

But Also, There Are No Films Being Made About Afghanistan.

When I Came Out, And For Many Years Afterwards, It Had Become A Habit For Me To Sit And Read And Read And Read, Like An Obsession. I Would Take 20 Books, And Not Come Out Until I'd Finished Them. It Took Me A While To Change That Habit.