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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.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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.
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Cinema Giving Grandchildren Lesson Life Opportunity
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
In real life, when someone’s partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
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First Life Mood Partner Real Word
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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Consumer Fed Information Moron People Theater
I only make notes, I don’t write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.
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Based Dialogue Knowledge Note Person Writing
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
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
I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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All End Hair Lost Picture Shoot
I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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Camera Digital Thinker Thinking Use
I never really learned photography.
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Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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America Cinema Critics Few Iran More People Unfortunately
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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Consider Filmmaker Intuition Master Storyteller Vision
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
Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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Always Create Demand Destroy Director
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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Character Children Independent Interesting Marlon Brando Strong
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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Camera Closer Digital Fashion Film Giving Making Nothing

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