In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

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.

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

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.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.