 Kiarostami has said of his film making : " An artist designs and creates a piece hoping to materialize some thoughts , concepts or feelings through his or her medium . The credibility of great Persian poets like Rumi and Hafez comes from the very fact that they are composed in such a way that they are fresh and meaningful regardless of the time , place and conditions in which you read them — and this means reading them while doing divination or simply as literature . " 
