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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.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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Deny Despite Differences Nation Race Ray Retrospectively Temporary World
Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.
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Despite Ease Great Understand Use Video
We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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Actual Between Culture Link Nothing Produce
I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.
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Audience Back Director Film Looks Film Managed Surprised
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are “like” someone in love sounds right.
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Certainties Dark Death Define Existence Harder Life Thinking
My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
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Car Film Friend Home Intimate Location Office
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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Common Culture Film Limit Universal Voice
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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Advice Anyone Ask Live Option
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
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
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
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end – I never do.
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Actually Beginning End Film Patient Watch Down
When I’m in the process of making a movie I’m not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences.
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Finish Making More Movie People Process Talking Thinking
I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.
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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
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Carpentry Contentment Doe Giving Spend Wood
I really haven’t seen The Report in a long time. I don’t have a copy, but I’ll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.
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Copy Long Men Report Thinking Time

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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