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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

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
I really haven’t seen The Report in a long time. I don’t have a copy, but I’ll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.
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Copy Long Men Report Thinking Time
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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International Language Persian Speak Voice
I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.
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Anything Different Display Displayed Heritage Nurtured View Worldview
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
Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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Experienced Feel Look Looks Subject
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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Anymore Blessing Camera Changed Digital Filmmaker Life People
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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Advice Anyone Ask Live Option
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.
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Deny Despite Differences Nation Race Ray Retrospectively Temporary World
In real life, when someone’s partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
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First Life Mood Partner Real Word
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
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 never really learned photography.
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Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.
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Actress Challenges Acting Juliette Performance Professional Way
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
We don’t look at each other [in the car], but instead do so only when we want to. We’re allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views.
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Appearing Around Car Look Rude Silence View

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