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I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

Abbas Kiarostami

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 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 believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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Bad Believe Cinema Good Only
I never really learned photography.
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Institue Interest Learned Photography Really
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Day Free Iran Petrol Run Running
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
I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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Asked Kind Possible Question
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
As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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Choice Long Possible Responsibility Right
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
I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.
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Audience Back Director Film Looks Film Managed Surprised
My car’s 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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Best Car Friend Home Intimate Location Sense View
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Convey Experienced Myself never Reflect
I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Better Football Footballer Home Rule 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
The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They’re not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
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Cinema Film Government Interesting Iranian Perhaps Relationship

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