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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.
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 have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic so I have my doubts.
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The fact of having this very new context, this unheard-of way of working, for me was very pleasant. I didn't feel that I was working, that I had any kind of burden to wear, to carry. I really was very happy and very lighthearted during the whole process of making the film [Certified Copy], of shooting it.
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This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.
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I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.
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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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Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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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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Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
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The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
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It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].
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I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.
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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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If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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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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It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
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