It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it’s sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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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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I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.
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I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
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