If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that’s very much what I’d prefer to do.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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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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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
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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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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.
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In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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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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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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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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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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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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