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I Always Thought That In The Countries That The Modernity Kicks In Later, It Seems That Everything Changes On The Surface, The Physical Things Change, But Inside, Things Haven't Changed, Really. This Is Always The Challenge Of This Kind Of Community, To Make A Harmony Between The Cultural Traditions And The Modernity Of Modern Life.

It's A Mistake And Misconception To Think That One Has To State Everything Clearly And Simply For The Audience To Be Able To Follow The Character, And This Is What Is Bringing American Cinema Down From Its Position In The Classic Golden Period. There's This Misapprehension That The Audience Is Not Smart.

Poetry, Especially Traditional Iranian Poetry, Is Very Good At Looking At Things From A Number Of Different Angles Simultaneously.

The Fact That I Do Place Music At The End Of My Films Is Not To Accentuate The Emotion. It Serves An Opposite Purpose Which Is To Remove Them From The Emotional Space And Allow Them To Enter A Space Of Thinking, Because I Believe That When The Audience Is Watching The Film They're Watching It With Their Feelings.

Whether We Like It Or Not, The Modernity Is Something That Comes From Western Countries, And When The Modernity Comes To The Eastern Countries, Although They Feel Like They Really Need It, At The Same Time It Shakes The Very Fundament Of The Culture - There Is Always This Challenge Between The Two.