A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIEverybody 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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The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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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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I never really learned photography.
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I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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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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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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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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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that’s very much what I’d prefer to do.
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There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are “like” someone in love sounds right.
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