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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

Abbas Kiarostami

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I’m just marketing my work!
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Marketing Mean Movie Selfish Work
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
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Darkness Desire Hope Poetry Still Total You
My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
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Car Film Friend Home Intimate Location Office
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
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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Common Culture Film Limit Universal Voice
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Culture Order Own Rooted Universal
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
I really think that I don’t mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It’s not to be taken badly at all.
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Digital Fall Film Good Prepare Sleep Taken
In real life, when someone’s partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
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First Life Mood Partner Real Word
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
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
Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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Affected Close up Film Made
Anything I’ve not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
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Experienced Feel Look Looks Subject
I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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Bad Believe Cinema Good Only
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Human Being Humanity Movie

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