I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

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

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

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.