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.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIDirectors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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I never really learned photography.
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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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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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With the RED, I didn’t have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera.
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I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.
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I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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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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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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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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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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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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