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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

Abbas Kiarostami

I think life is so difficult to catch, it’s so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
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Difficult Furtive Life Represent Thinking Way
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 no advice for anyone on how to live.
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Advice Anyone Ask Live Option
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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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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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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Better Football Footballer Home Rule Thinking
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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I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I’m not the only one.
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It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it’s not something predetermined – it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.
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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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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it’s still nothing but a copy.
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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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You’ve noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn’t, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize – all of this matters.
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I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
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Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
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