Asghar Farhadi Quotes

You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.

Asghar Farhadi

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

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• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

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• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

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• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

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• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

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• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

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• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

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• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

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• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  

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• I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

  

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• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

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• I have no message.

  

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• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

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• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

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• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

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• His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.

  

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• One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.

  

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• Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

  

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• You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Thinking