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.
Asghar FarhadiThe first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.
Asghar FarhadiIt's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
Asghar FarhadiWhen we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
Asghar Farhadi