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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.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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Car Film Friend Home Intimate Location Office
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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Cinema Giving Grandchildren Lesson Life Opportunity
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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Accept People Religion Thinking Valid Want
I’m not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.
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Aspect Different Expansive Extensive Iran Place Reality Show
When I’m in the process of making a movie I’m not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences.
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Finish Making More Movie People Process Talking Thinking
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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Challenges Common Other Cultures
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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Able Accept Acknowledge Illusion Moving State Thinking
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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Asking Behave Director Guilty More Perhaps Thinking
I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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Camera Digital Thinker Thinking Use
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Darkness Desire Hope Poetry Still Total You
The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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Camera Different Digital Filming Freedom Way
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Allen Film Make Matter Thinking Woody
The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn’t directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.
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Actor Character Directing Film Large Real Very
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark.
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Dark Element Light Painting Pointed Referred Use
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
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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Cinema Dead End Possible Turn Wall Word

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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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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