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Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

Abbas Kiarostami

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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Actress Challenges Acting Juliette Performance Professional Way
Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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Difficult heavy Option Silence
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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Digital Film Maker Mind Predetermined Something Thinking Working
It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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Different Knowing Situation True Way
The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
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Experience Life Love More Real Teach Uncertain
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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Ambition Bad Copy Film Life Nothing Shape Thinking
The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.
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Front Hold Men Mirror Nothing Reflection Viewer
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
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Carpentry Contentment Doe Giving Spend Wood
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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Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie
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 think life is so difficult to catch, it’s so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
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Difficult Furtive Life Represent Thinking Way
I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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All End Hair Lost Picture Shoot
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
I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.
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Accept Belief Insulted Justified Thinking Violence
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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International Language Persian Speak Voice
Therefore, when you see the end result, it’s difficult to see who’s the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the actors – we just manage the situation.
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Actors End Belong Difficult Director Film Ultimately

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