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As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

Abbas Kiarostami

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 KIAROSTAMI

Believe Cinema Good Interested
Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is.
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Couple Curtain Guess Neighbour People Sibling
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.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Accept Audience Digital Important Question Real Shot Video
The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don’t really exist for them. It’s not about whether they like it or don’t; it’s just not very important to them.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Exist Government Grapple Important Issue Issues
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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Deny Despite Differences Nation Race Ray Retrospectively Temporary World
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
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Allen Film Make Matter Thinking Woody
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
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
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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Complication Expression Life Mystery Perception Way
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Convey Experienced Myself never Reflect
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
It’s very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.
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Camera Digital Intimate Moments Light
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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Death Earthquake Film Influence Issue Issues Life Recur
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie

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