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.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII 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
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end – I never do.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
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I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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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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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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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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I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
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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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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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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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Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is.
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