Asghar Farhadi Quotes
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's just how my subconscious works.
Quotes to Explore
-
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
-
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
-
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
-
One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
-
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
-
But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
-
What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.
-
I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.
-
I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.
-
I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
-
There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
-
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
-
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
-
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
-
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
-
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
-
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
-
That’s what being human means: to be master of your own fate.
-
It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.
-
Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests.
-
People have died in jail that have been innocent.
-
I've certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I've done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I've had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I've enjoyed getting them.
-
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's just how my subconscious works.
