I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.
Asghar FarhadiIt's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
Asghar FarhadiIt was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.
Asghar FarhadiThe fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
Asghar FarhadiI 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.
Asghar FarhadiI 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. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.
Asghar Farhadi