I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it’s still nothing but a copy.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMIWhen 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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I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.
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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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I really think that I don’t mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It’s not to be taken badly at all.
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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 Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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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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As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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