Asghar Farhadi famous quotes

03-28-2025

I feel itâ€™s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think itâ€™s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Thinking #Issues #Giving
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Math #Screenwriting #Solve
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.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Writing #Thinking #Stories
Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Country #Emotional #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.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Past #Thinking #Years
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.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Country #Mean #Thinking
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Rain #Mean #Sunshine
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Differences #Interesting #East
It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Mistake #Smart #Character
Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Emotional #Credit #Want
There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Iran #Trying #Want
There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Thinking #People #Creative
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Self #Issues #Moral
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Drama #Theater #Valuable
The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Iran #Order #Facts
I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Atmosphere #Narrative #Restriction
I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Issues #Important #Feels
At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Country #War #Dust
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Heartbroken #War #Winning
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?
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Morality #Individual #Source
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Theater #Periods #Deals
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Drama #Everyday #Events
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Iran #Difficult
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Numbers #Different #Angle
The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Individual #Bigger #Confrontation
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Math #Trying #Lines

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