Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it’s not something predetermined – it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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![Abbas Kiarostami Quote - I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/i-think-it-was-jean-luc-godard-who-said-that-life-.jpg)
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I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn’t sleep a wink for those 40 nights.
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If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that’s very much what I’d prefer to do.
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Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.
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I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead.
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When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I’ve met in real life.
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![Abbas Kiarostami Quote - I didn’t just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/i-didnt-just-see-myself-as-a-film-director-here-in.jpg)