Asghar Farhadi Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Thinking, Issues, Giving

• 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 the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  "Director Asghar Farhadi Talks THE PAST, His Inspiration for the Story, Filming a Different Side of Paris, the Oscar Controversy, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

• 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 Farhadi

  Drama, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Asghar Farhadi

  Iran, Order, Facts

• 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 intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Emotional, Credit, Want

• It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Past, Important, Film

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film 'The Past'". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

• I 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

  Games, Expectations, Facts

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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