Human Beings Have A Lot Of Problems

Of Course, When You Remember Your Life, You Never Remember Anything In A Chronological Way. You Always Have Pieces Of Memories, And Some Of These Memories Are Full Of Details And Very Colorful. Some Of Them You Just See The Action And It's Completely Blank.

If Today I Have To Make A Political Statement, It Is, 'i Love Beauty.' I Think Beauty Makes People Better.

I Like To Make Mechanical Stuff. Once I Make A Film I Have To Do Whatever I Can Make Onstage I Make It Onstage.

I'd Heard So Many Stupidities About My Country Since I Left Iran. People Had Watched This Stupid Movie Not Without My Daughter [in Which Sally Field Plays An American Who Rescues Her Daughter From Her Estranged In-laws In Iran]; I Heard So Many Things Like That. I Did Not Make Persepolis For Iranians. It Was My Answer To The Rest Of The World, To Say, "let Me Give You Another Point Of View."

I'm Very Open And Never Write What I'm Going To Say. Speeches Bore Everybody Else. I Have To Freestyle. Every Time, From One Program To Another, Everything Changes And I Improvise.