I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don’t use my camera anymore as a camera. I don’t feel it as a camera.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.
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I never really learned photography.
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In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
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Silence doesn’t seem heavy or difficult.
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I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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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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If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that’s very much what I’d prefer to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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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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Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
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