Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

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 feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.