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.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIIt 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.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.
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I 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.
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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 never really learned photography.
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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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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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Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
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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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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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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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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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