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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Abbas Kiarostami

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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Asked Kind Possible Question
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 somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.
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Action Camera Digital Doubt Light Produces Proud Video Year
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 think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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Camera Digital Thinker Thinking Use
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Human Being Humanity Movie
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
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
The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.
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Front Hold Men Mirror Nothing Reflection Viewer
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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Digital Fall Film Good Prepare Sleep Taken
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
It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.
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Accept Audience Digital Important Question Real Shot Video
Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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Always Create Demand Destroy Director
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
I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
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Better Football Footballer Home Rule Thinking
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

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

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