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I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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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I think life is so difficult to catch, it’s so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
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I didn’t just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
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In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.
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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 do believe in [Robert] Bresson’s method of creation through omission, not through addition.
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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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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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It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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Enjoy Listening Mind Remember Story
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.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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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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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.
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