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 FarhadiI think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.
Asghar FarhadiWhen we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
Asghar FarhadiIt's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
Asghar FarhadiWhether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries, although they feel like they really need it, at the same time it shakes the very fundament of the culture - there is always this challenge between the two.
Asghar Farhadi