In real life, when someone’s partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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It’s true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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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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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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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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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can’t believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I’m interested in.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.
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I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn’t sleep a wink for those 40 nights.
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I never really learned photography.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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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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