Therefore, When You See The End Result,

In My Experience As A Director, I Think There Is Obviously Something Of The Way Men - Maybe That's A Common Point With Shirin - The Way Men See Women In The Film, And The Way These Two Characters See Each Other.

When We Start Shooting I Don't Have Rehearsals With Characters At All. So, Rather Than Pulling Them Towards Myself, I Travel Closer To Them; It's Very Much Closer To The Real Person Than Anything I Try To Create. So I Give Them Something But I Also Take From Them.

The Iranian Government As A Whole Has No Relationship With My Films. They're Not Particularly Interested, Perhaps This Kind Of Cinema Is Not Very Interesting To Them.

We Don't Look At Each Other [in The Car], But Instead Do So Only When We Want To. We're Allowed To Look Around Without Appearing Rude. We Have A Big Screen In Front Of Us And Side Views. Silence Doesn't Seem Heavy Or Difficult.

I Am Still Very Surprised That I Managed To Make That Film [close Up]. When I Actually Look Back On That Film, I Really Feel That I Was Not The Director But Instead Just A Member Of The Audience.