Answers Quote by Marjane Satrapi

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“I'm a stranger in my own home! The tragedy of our whole country is the same: we are all alienated, strangers in our own…

— Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“I was ashamed to find myself contemplating that for the traveller, Iran’s charms lay in its isolation. This was not a mindset I liked,…

— Lois Pryce

You don't read many positive things about Iran in the press, which is depressing, but when I go back to my grandparents' house in…

— Kayvan Novak

I remember watching an Iranian film, 'A Separation.' When the film ended, I felt like going to Iran, getting that family together, hug them…

— Shoojit Sircar

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

— Asghar Farhadi

I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother…

— Maz Jobrani

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you…

— Marjane Satrapi

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there,…

— Navid Negahban