Asghar Farhadi Quotes

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.