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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

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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.

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from...

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I am a citizen of the world.

I never really learned photography.

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.

There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides...

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it,...

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

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