Asghar Farhadi Quotes

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.