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In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

Abbas Kiarostami

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Experience Life Love More Real Teach Uncertain
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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Close up Director Film Oeuvre Thinking Time Way
Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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America Cinema Critics Few Iran More People Unfortunately
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.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Better Football Footballer Home Rule Thinking
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
With the RED, I didn’t have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Assistant Attention Camera DP Film heavy Impression Red Shooting
The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don’t really exist for them. It’s not about whether they like it or don’t; it’s just not very important to them.
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Exist Government Grapple Important Issue Issues
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Day Free Iran Petrol Run Running
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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Character Film General Mind Outline Reality Script
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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Derive Experienced Film Novel Story Trying
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he’s so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I’m not impressed by any technicality.
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Artificial Beautiful Hitchcock Master Saw Technically Thinking Year
I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.
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Audience Film Morning Night Sleep Theatre
Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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Affected Close up Film Made
I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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Angle Fake Reverse Shot Untruthful
In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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Complication Expression Life Mystery Perception Way

In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

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