Asghar Farhadi Quotes

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• I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
• It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
• It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
• Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
• The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.
• The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
• When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
• When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 -…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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