Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
“It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.”
“In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.”