Asghar Farhadi

“לעולם לא אכפה על הצופים לראות מציאות רק מזווית אחת, שהיא הנכונה לכאורה. הם חופשיים לבחור לעצמם כיצד לראות את הסרט ואת הדמויות שבו.”

“הדבר הכי חשוב מבחינתי הוא הזיקה הנוצרת בין הסרט ובין הצופה. כל צופה יכול להפוך, בדרכו, את הסרט לשלו.”

“It's the governments that create the problems. People are fun; people get along. People in Iran really love Americans. There is no problem between us.”

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

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

“We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.”

“Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.”

“I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.”

“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.”

“Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.”

“For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.”

“The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.”

“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.”

“The goal in some types of yoga is to try and reconcile all the characters within a person, and, in fact, the word 'yoga' comes from the word 'union.'”

“The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.”

“I pay lots of homages. I wanted to pay tribute to a leading Iranian writer, Gholam - Hossein Sa'edi, who is buried in Paris - he is an Iranian Arthur Miller. He is of a similar stature, and his work is similar to that of Arthur Miller.”

“After 'A Separation,' I found it much easier to work in Iran because I worked with very enthusiastic people who were very involved in the work, and that facilitated a number of things. It made it possible to iron out some of the difficulties found by other filmmakers in Iran.”

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

“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?”