I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don’t use my camera anymore as a camera. I don’t feel it as a camera.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII do believe in [Robert] Bresson’s method of creation through omission, not through addition.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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 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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In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
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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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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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If it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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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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I never really learned photography.
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It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it’s not something predetermined – it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.
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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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I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.
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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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