Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can’t believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I’m interested in.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIHaving an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.
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I never really learned photography.
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Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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If we’re not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas – I have no problem with 35mm.
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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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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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This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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