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!
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIIn my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don’t use my camera anymore as a camera. I don’t feel it as a camera.
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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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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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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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I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.
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You’ve noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn’t, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize – all of this matters.
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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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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.
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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 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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A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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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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Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It’s a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn’t really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.
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In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
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