When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'
“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.”