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 swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.”