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I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.

Abbas Kiarostami

A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Art Audience Exist Outside Perception Work
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
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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City Village Film Prefer Society Town True
Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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Affected Close up Film Made
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
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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Actor Non Actor Own REquired Thing
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
The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.
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Camera Different Digital Filming Freedom Way
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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Death Earthquake Film Influence Issue Issues Life Recur
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Cinema Giving Grandchildren Lesson Life Opportunity
In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
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Bad Distinction Documentary Fiction Good Good Movie Mind Movie
Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it’s sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
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Character Children Independent Interesting Marlon Brando Strong
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end – I never do.
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Actually Beginning End Film Patient Watch Down
I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
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Derive Experienced Film Novel Story Trying
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
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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Believe Cinema Good Interested

I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.

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I can only display what I’ve been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn’t deserve this heritage.

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