I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIAs long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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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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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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If we’re not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas – I have no problem with 35mm.
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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 don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson’s method of creation through omission, not through addition.
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My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They’re not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
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I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives
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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 think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I’m not the only one.
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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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