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

Abbas Kiarostami

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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Common Culture Film Limit Universal Voice
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 only make notes, I don’t write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.
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Based Dialogue Knowledge Note Person Writing
I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.
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Audience Back Director Film Looks Film Managed Surprised
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
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
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
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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Despite Ease Great Understand Use Video
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
As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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Choice Long Possible Responsibility Right
People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people’s minds to lazy minds.
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Cinema Curiosity Director Intelligence Interest Peer People Producer Understanding
It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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Different Knowing Situation True Way
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
The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They’re not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
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Cinema Film Government Interesting Iranian Perhaps Relationship
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Benefit Common Culture Difference Film Ground Important Politician
I’m not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.
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Aspect Different Expansive Extensive Iran Place Reality Show

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