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I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

Abbas Kiarostami

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 didn’t just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
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Condemned Death Director Film People
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
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
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
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Consumer Fed Information Moron People Theater
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
We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
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Actual Between Culture Link Nothing Produce
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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Advantage Camera Digital Doe Film Influence Making Video
I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.
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Believe End Film Kids Camera Like Made Ten
I really haven’t seen The Report in a long time. I don’t have a copy, but I’ll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.
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Copy Long Men Report Thinking Time
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
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.
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Better Football Footballer Home Rule Thinking
In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men – maybe that’s a common point with Shirin – the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.
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Character Director Experience Men Shirin Thinking
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 think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives
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Able Accept Acknowledge Illusion Moving State Thinking

I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

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I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

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