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Asghar Farhadi Quotes

Iranian - Director | January 1, 1972 -

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.

Change Live Feel Want Way Matter

I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

Joy Happy People Me Feel Pleasure

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

Great Value Things Deal Theater

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

Me Drama Know Valuable Theater Came

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

Good Poetry Looking Things Angles

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.

Interesting You Differences More See

I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.

Great Diversity View Cinema Because

I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.

Try Write Hard Orderly Very Manner

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.

Moment Game Expectations Feel Kind

Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.

Me Speak Feel Doing Sometimes Way

I have two daughters.

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

Myself Think Filmmaker Just Really

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