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Asghar Farhadi Biography

Asghar Farhadi (Persian: اصغر فرهادی‎; Persian pronunciation: [æsɢæɾ fæɾhɑdiː] pronunciation (help·info) born 7 May 1972) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2017), making him one of the few directors world-wide who have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film twice, along with such noted directors as Akira Kurosawa and René Clément. In 2012, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

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I 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.

Everyone, Mediums, Music, Pure, Theater, Thinking

I 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.

Art, People, Serious, Think, Thinking

Whether 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.

Challenge, Challenges, Countries, Country, Culture, Two

It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.

Character, Clearly, Mistake, Position, Smart

The 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.

Character, Judging, Judgment, World

I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

Affecting, Feels, Important, Issues, Talk

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.

Believe, Emotional, Fact, Film, Thinking, Watching

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

Careful, Imagine, Thing, Viewer, Writing

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

Country, Leave, Mean, Prefer, Think, Thinking

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 between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Defeated, Heartbroken, Matter, War, Winning

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Creative, Misleading, People, Privilege, Restriction, Thinking

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things change, but inside, things haven't changed, really. This is always the challenge of this kind of community, to make a harmony between the cultural traditions and the modernity of modern life.

Challenges, Changes, Community, Country, Harmony, Life

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

Blessing, Daughter, Family, Lovely, Two, Wonderful

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Actually, Differences, East, Emphasize, Interesting, Politicians

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.

Act, Appearance, Expectations, Facts, Game, Games

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Come, Follow, Individual, Individuals, Morality, Source

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Atmosphere, Narrative, Restriction, Restrictions, Same

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Opinion, People, Relationship, Relationships, Talking, World

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

Fight, Iran, Iranian, Mean, Rain, Sunshine

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

Angle, Angles, Different, Iranian, Numbers

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