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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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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Advantage Camera Digital Doe Film Influence Making Video
In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men – maybe that’s a common point with Shirin – the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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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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It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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Different Knowing Situation True Way
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
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I never really learned photography.
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Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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Camera Different Digital Filming Freedom Way
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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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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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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