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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Abbas Kiarostami

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
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
If we’re not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas – I have no problem with 35mm.
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Advantage Digital Drama Especially Shooting Video
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
In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
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Fashion Hold Hope Look Men Opinion Relationship
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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Ask Businessman Iran Politician Quickly
This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
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Death Earthquake Film Influence Issue Issues Life Recur
I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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Derive Experienced Film Novel Story Trying
In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.
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Actor Child Children Communicate Cooperate Level Order
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
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
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
The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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Camera Different Digital Filming Freedom Way
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
It’s very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.
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Camera Digital Intimate Moments Light
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

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