Asghar Farhadi Quotes

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.