I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, … - Asghar Farhadi

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I bought a cheap piece of land. . . It was on someone else’s property.

Asghar Farhadi

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.

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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.

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There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

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

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I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

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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.

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