Therefore, when you see the end result, it’s difficult to see who’s the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the actors – we just manage the situation.
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More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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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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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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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 really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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The one-word cinema wasn’t possible for me anymore. I’d hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I’d turn back.
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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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I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead.
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The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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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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As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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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.
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I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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I never really learned photography.
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