Asghar Farhadi Quotes

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

I don't make films for critics.

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

I think I'd prefer to write something more youth-orientated, or something to do with people in their 20s or even 30s. 'EastEnders' spans so many generations that I think I'd find it difficult, but I'd love to have a go.

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be welcome. I think some of the more serious writers wrote to a more elite audience than that. They're the ones who were defining the seriousness of rock n' roll.

If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I just read the script; everything else just follows. Content is the most important thing for me.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

I never let the technical stuff get in the way of the storytelling.