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I 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.

Abbas Kiarostami

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Best Iran Produce Really Thinking Work
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
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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Evening Hair Night Sleep Wink
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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Accept Audience Digital Important Question Real Shot Video
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he’s so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I’m not impressed by any technicality.
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Artificial Beautiful Hitchcock Master Saw Technically Thinking Year
Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is.
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Couple Curtain Guess Neighbour People Sibling
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that’s my perception of life.
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Complication Expression Life Mystery Perception Way
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
You’ve noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn’t, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize – all of this matters.
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Different Edit Joke Notice People Person Silence Time
People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people’s minds to lazy minds.
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Cinema Curiosity Director Intelligence Interest Peer People Producer Understanding
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
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
I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.
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Accept Belief Insulted Justified Thinking Violence
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
Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.
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Enjoy Listener Listening Mind More Remember Story Teller
I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
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Anxiety English Familiar Man Men Responsibility

I 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.

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I 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.

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