In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.