87 Quotes by Asghar Farhadi

Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.

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