I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

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 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.

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.

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

Libraries are the future of reading.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.