I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIMy films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.
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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 wasn’t searching for a common denominator – I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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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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My car’s 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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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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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.
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I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I don’t have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who’s in my mind in reality.
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I never really learned photography.
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