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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.

Abbas Kiarostami

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are “like” someone in love sounds right.
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Certainties Dark Death Define Existence Harder Life Thinking
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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Accept People Religion Thinking Valid Want
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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Complication Deny Expression Life Perception Thinking
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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Camera Digital Feelings General Grateful Red
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
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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Death Earthquake Film Influence Issue Issues Life Recur
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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Derive Experienced Film Novel Story Trying
Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it’s sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
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Character Children Independent Interesting Marlon Brando Strong
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
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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Enjoy Listening Mind Remember Story
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Element Eliminated Film Kind Minimalism Progress Progressive
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
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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Challenges Common Other Cultures
I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.
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Audience Film Morning Night Sleep Theatre
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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Country Fruit Good Nature Original Rule
I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it’s still nothing but a copy.
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Camera Closer Digital Fashion Film Giving Making Nothing

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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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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