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I 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.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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Cinema Lazy Life People Punctuation Seat
When I’m in the process of making a movie I’m not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences.
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Finish Making More Movie People Process Talking Thinking
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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Frame Front Inside Notice Often
Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
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Consider Filmmaker Intuition Master Storyteller Vision
I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
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Anxiety English Familiar Man Men Responsibility
I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead.
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Answer Appreciate Clue Exam Memories Remember Thinking Wrong
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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Another Bear Country Fruit Ground Place Rooted Thinking Transfer Tree
I only make notes, I don’t write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.
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Based Dialogue Knowledge Note Person Writing
Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.
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Despite Ease Great Understand Use Video
We don’t look at each other [in the car], but instead do so only when we want to. We’re allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views.
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Appearing Around Car Look Rude Silence View
We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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Actual Between Culture Link Nothing Produce
I 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
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Able Accept Acknowledge Illusion Moving State Thinking
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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Benefit Common Culture Difference Film Ground Important Politician
I don’t have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who’s in my mind in reality.
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Character Film General Mind Outline Reality Script
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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Assistant Attention Camera DP Film heavy Impression Red Shooting
Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.
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Enjoy Listener Listening Mind More Remember Story Teller

I 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.

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