I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIThose 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.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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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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A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I’m just marketing my work!
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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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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people’s minds to lazy minds.
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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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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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I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
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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 think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
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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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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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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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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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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.
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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men – maybe that’s a common point with Shirin – the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.
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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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