The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMII 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.
More Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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I never really learned photography.
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While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn’t interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the “set”, because I thought they would work better in my absence.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
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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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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.
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Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.
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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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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I’m just marketing my work!
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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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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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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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I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
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