There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.