- [press conference for Holy Spider (2022) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival] We didn't do the movie to highlight women's conditions in Iran. We didn't do the movie to do activist work, but it does take up that thing. Is it limited to Iranian society? I don't think so. Have we come a long way in Europe to get to a more equal place, to a less violent place, less violence against women, less misogyny? I think so. Is it enough? I don't think so.
- [Cannes press conference for Holy Spider (2022)] I'm not a big fan of serial killers. I'm not a big fan of serial killer movies either. I'm not so interested and invested in crime, solving crime. The fact that the killings happened.....I was following the news like everyone else. And then I think where it really became something else and became interesting for me was when a certain segment of the Iranian society and press and authorities started talking about this guy as some sort of selfless hero that has been sacrificing himself for the good of society and that whole conversation, even starting that conversation, I think, was very......interesting. And I think that's when it became more than a story of some twisted guy killing women, that it became a story of that serial-killer society that we're talking about.
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