In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.
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More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.
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Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.
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As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.
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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.
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If we’re not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas – I have no problem with 35mm.
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I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don’t use my camera anymore as a camera. I don’t feel it as a camera.
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The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn’t directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.
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