I wasn’t searching for a common denominator – I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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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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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 generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.
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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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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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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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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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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don’t really exist for them. It’s not about whether they like it or don’t; it’s just not very important to them.
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This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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