[16][2] It stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Dominic Rains, Mozhan Marnò, and Rome Shadanloo.

Wide shots featuring the monotonous, dipping movement of dark, heavy machinery against an industrial backdrop in A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night can bring to mind either "an American suburban neighborhood" or "the oil fields of Iran.

[32][33][34] Amirpour has written, produced and directed several short films before her directorial debut with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

My Saint in which she collaborated with indie musicians and actors Karen O, Michael Kiwanuka, Alex Zhang Hungtai, and Kiko Mizuhara.

The episode stars Steven Yeun, Marika Sila, and Greg Kinnear and was written by X-Files veteran Glen Morgan.

Amirpour directed "The Outside", the 4th episode of the horror anthology streaming television series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, which aired on October 26, 2022.

[38] Amirpour's films are known for being highly stylized and her creative choices often revolve around the mixing and meshing of cultural backgrounds and genres.

"[40] These qualities feature significantly in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a film that is widely regarded as the "first Iranian vampire western.

"[41] Inspiration from the Eastern and Western worlds are equally present in all her work, mainly influenced by Amirpour's experience as a first-generation Iranian-American.

Themes of outcasts, rebels, and "otherness" are a staple to her filmography to date, which she attributes to her personal history of feeling out of place.

“I’m a brown woman immigrant, my family escaped the Iranian Revolution, I grew up on two continents, and English wasn’t the first language in my home.

I know what it is to be the ‘other’ very well.”[42] These themes usually revolve around central female characters who are outcasts in their own worlds and must find a way to break free from the molds they've been confined to by society.

Yet when confronted with the question of feminism, she explains that her debut film "can be feminist if that's what people think,"[15] while still prompting her critics and audience to consider her individuality as an artist separate from her womanhood.

In a Q&A with Roger Corman about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Amirpour explained that "all the characters in the story are isolated and grappling with something that keeps them away from other people and themselves and from knowing what they want and from figuring out how to get it.

"[44] She has noted that she finds her characters from a secret place within herself: "I like outcasts, I'm always drawn to the people that don't neatly fit into the conventional shit that's all around, the system.

Although she approaches any feminist reading of A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night with a level of reserve,[43] Amirpour hopes her audience will appreciate the film's representation of a drag-wearing, silent character named Rockabilly who she describes as gay and Bitch Media calls genderqueer.

The film was also meant to critique modern capitalism and consumerist ideology, as motifs of overindulgence and consumption took center stage, themes that were also present in her first feature.

[49] Various film directors have had an impact on Amirpour's style: David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis,[50] and Sergio Leone.

[51] Anne Rice was the major influence for A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night,[11] and Bruce Lee remains one of her biggest artistic heroes (his book Striking Thoughts is one she continually returns to for inspiration).

[51] Films that she has found inspiring throughout her life and career include The NeverEnding Story,[51] Back to the Future,[12] Sin City,[11] and Pulp Fiction.