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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Abbas Kiarostami

While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn’t interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the “set”, because I thought they would work better in my absence.
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Backseat Car Interfere Present Shooting Sitting Ten
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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Advantage Camera Digital Doe Film Influence Making Video
I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives
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Able Accept Acknowledge Illusion Moving State Thinking
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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Consumer Fed Information Moron People Theater
I wasn’t searching for a common denominator – I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
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Challenges Common Other Cultures
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.
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Camera Closer Digital Fashion Film Giving Making Nothing
Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can’t believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I’m interested in.
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Believe Cinema Good Interested
When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I’ve met in real life.
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Character Know Not People Real Well
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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Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie
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
I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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All End Hair Lost Picture Shoot
Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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Difficult heavy Option Silence
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Element Eliminated Film Kind Minimalism Progress Progressive
Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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Affected Close up Film Made
I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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Asked Kind Possible Question
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Darkness Desire Hope Poetry Still Total You

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