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Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.

Abbas Kiarostami

If it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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Country Fruit Good Nature Original Rule
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Allen Film Make Matter Thinking Woody
In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
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Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he’s so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I’m not impressed by any technicality.
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Artificial Beautiful Hitchcock Master Saw Technically Thinking Year
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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City Village Film Prefer Society Town True
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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Advantage Camera Digital Doe Film Influence Making Video
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
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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Actor Non Actor Own REquired Thing
Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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Experienced Feel Look Looks Subject
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Art Audience Exist Outside Perception Work
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 don’t have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who’s in my mind in reality.
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Character Film General Mind Outline Reality Script
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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Ask Businessman Iran Politician Quickly
I’m not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.
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Aspect Different Expansive Extensive Iran Place Reality Show
I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.
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Action Camera Digital Doubt Light Produces Proud Video Year
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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Frame Front Inside Notice Often

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