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 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.

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.

Our assignment is to show the people all the qualities of God

This FEMINIST Goes Hard.

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

We must also suffer the consequences of our past decisions. And for that, we must open our hearts to those in need.

Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.