Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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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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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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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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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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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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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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With the RED, I didn’t have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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