The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn’t directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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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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I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
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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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People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people’s minds to lazy minds.
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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson’s method of creation through omission, not through addition.
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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.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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I never really learned photography.
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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.
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I think that if you’re a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
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