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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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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