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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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Assistant Attention Camera DP Film heavy Impression Red Shooting
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark.
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Dark Element Light Painting Pointed Referred Use
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
Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It’s a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn’t really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.
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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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Affected Close up Film Made
I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives
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Able Accept Acknowledge Illusion Moving State Thinking
Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.
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Despite Ease Great Understand Use Video
When I’m in the process of making a movie I’m not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences.
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Finish Making More Movie People Process Talking Thinking
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.
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Cinema Film Government Interesting Iranian Perhaps Relationship
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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Accept Belief Insulted Justified Thinking Violence
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
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 order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
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’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
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Convey Experienced Myself never Reflect

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.

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