My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
