Asghar Farhadi Quotes

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.