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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.
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 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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In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
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It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation 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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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 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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