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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson’s method of creation through omission, not through addition.

Abbas Kiarostami

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Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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I didn’t just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.
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The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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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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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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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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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are “like” someone in love sounds right.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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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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