I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantl…

- Asghar Farhadi

The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from th…

- Asghar Farhadi

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is bet…

- Asghar Farhadi

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

- Asghar Farhadi

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It'…

- Asghar Farhadi

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

- Asghar Farhadi

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

- Asghar Farhadi

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

- Asghar Farhadi

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intens…

- Asghar Farhadi