The film industry in Iran should also move towards an international market, but not with the aim of competing with the US film industry. We have to remain loyal to our own ideals. A film industry that has become universal can be lucrative and still get its message across in a world-wide manner. A few years ago, when I had participated in the Nantes' Film Festival, in a press conference I was asked about censorship. Naturally the response is negative.
Censorship exists all through the world.
It is used to protect the values of a community and to avoid a nation being held responsible for the views and ideas of an individual. For example when a director ridicules the religious values of a neighboring country in his film , the whole nation is held responsible for it. Generally speaking in my point of view abolishing censorship, is yet another kind censorship which needs to be imposed. The sales are not surprising at all. The film's sales or its great number of viewers indicates the existing potential of the film industry in general.