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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Abbas Kiarostami

Therefore, when you see the end result, it’s difficult to see who’s the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the actors – we just manage the situation.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Actors End Belong Difficult Director Film Ultimately
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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Accept People Religion Thinking Valid Want
Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is.
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Couple Curtain Guess Neighbour People Sibling
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
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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Actor Child Children Communicate Cooperate Level Order
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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Anymore Blessing Camera Changed Digital Filmmaker Life People
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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Audience Film Morning Night Sleep Theatre
The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They’re not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
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Cinema Film Government Interesting Iranian Perhaps Relationship
In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.
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Film Grateful Information People Possible Real
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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Enjoy Listening Mind Remember Story
I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.
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Anything Different Display Displayed Heritage Nurtured View Worldview
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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Believe End Film Kids Camera Like Made Ten
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Convey Experienced Myself never Reflect
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Cinema Giving Grandchildren Lesson Life Opportunity
I never really learned photography.
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Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Carpentry Contentment Doe Giving Spend Wood

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