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 KIAROSTAMICinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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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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I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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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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I never really learned photography.
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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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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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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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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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