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Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.

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Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

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There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

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I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

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Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.

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I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

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The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

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Exile is my power.

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If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

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I think there is a problem in France that anyone who is not European, you want to know where they come from and why do they come from somewhere or why they speak English or why they are human. That's the big barrier for all of us that are coming from some far, far away countries. But at the end of the day, we are all artists.

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Biography

Nationality: Iranian

Type: Actress

Born: July 10th, 1983

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