I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

Not only try but try your best!

When the body is urged to participate with the universe, it creates access routes for emotionality and intellectuality as well.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.