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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.

Abbas Kiarostami

While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn’t interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the “set”, because I thought they would work better in my absence.
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Backseat Car Interfere Present Shooting Sitting Ten
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
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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Action Camera Digital Doubt Light Produces Proud Video Year
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
The one-word cinema wasn’t possible for me anymore. I’d hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I’d turn back.
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Cinema Dead End Possible Turn Wall Word
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.
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Ambition Bad Copy Film Life Nothing Shape Thinking
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Day Free Iran Petrol Run Running
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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Asking Behave Director Guilty More Perhaps Thinking
I wasn’t searching for a common denominator – I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
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Challenges Common Other Cultures
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Art Audience Exist Outside Perception Work
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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Actor Non Actor Own REquired Thing
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
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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Digital Film Maker Mind Predetermined Something Thinking Working
My car’s my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
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Best Car Friend Home Intimate Location Sense View
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
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

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