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It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

Abbas Kiarostami

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 believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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Bad Believe Cinema Good Only
I think life is so difficult to catch, it’s so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
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Difficult Furtive Life Represent Thinking 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 saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
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Anxiety English Familiar Man Men Responsibility
The one-word cinema wasn’t possible for me anymore. I’d hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I’d turn back.
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Cinema Dead End Possible Turn Wall Word
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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Ambition Bad Copy Film Life Nothing Shape Thinking
I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
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Complication Deny Expression Life Perception Thinking
In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.
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Film Grateful Information People Possible Real
Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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Always Create Demand Destroy Director
We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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Actual Between Culture Link Nothing Produce
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
If it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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Country Fruit Good Nature Original Rule
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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Frame Front Inside Notice Often
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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Camera Digital Thinker Thinking Use

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