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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: January 1
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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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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.
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Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.
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I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
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Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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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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As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
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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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The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't it's just not very important to them.
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My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not for me to judge whether it's a good film or a bad film, but what I could say is that nobody had a cultural or linguistic issue with what was produced.
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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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This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.
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