My first question is about your skill to become a domestic drama in a kind of Greek tragedy. Did you do the same in A Separation, The Past and now in The Salesman. How did you know that you are in front of your next story?
I’d been taking notes for this simple story that I’d had at the back of my mind for some time. When the chance to do a film in Iran came up, I started collecting all these scattered notes I’d been taking over the years. Besides that, I’ve always wanted to do a film that takes place in the world of theatre. I did theatre when I was younger, and it meant a lot to me. The story was ideally suited for the theatre milieu. So I started developing a scenario about characters putting on a play.Continue reading ““I recognize that no one film could in any way claim to provide a picture of a whole society”-Asghar Farhadi”