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If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that’s very much what I’d prefer to do.

Abbas Kiarostami

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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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With the RED, I didn’t have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera.
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Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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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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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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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.
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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 believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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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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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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Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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I never really learned photography.
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I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I’m not the only one.
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