“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.” ThinkingStatesCharacterAbleMistakeAudiencePositionPeriodsSmartGoldenCinemaClassicMisconception Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” ThinkingWorldWritingPersonsIndividualParticular Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” ThinkingBelieveEndsFactsFeelingsFilmPurposeI BelieveSpaceEmotionAudienceEmotionalOppositesRemoveAccentuate Author:Asghar Farhadi
“We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.” ThinkingWellsTwoRealFilmWishDramaReal LifeSuspenseTwo ThingsFar AwayGood Drama Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” ThinkingPureTheaterMediumsElitesClosest Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantArtFormWatchesSeriousTheater Author:Asghar Farhadi
“I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.” ThinkingGivingFeelsImportantFilmWatchesAudienceIssuesMessagesComplexesSentencesInsultingOne Sentence Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” ThinkingYearsPastHistoricalStorytellingSomeday Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” IfsThinkingWantMeanDoeCountryDoneDesireIran Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMightCreativePrivilegeDisagreeMight Have BeenSlogansRestrictionMislead Author:Asghar Farhadi
“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.” ThinkingWantWritingStoriesTurnsToo MuchSubconscious Author:Asghar Farhadi
