Iranian - Director | June 22, 1940 - July 4, 2016
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
LifeViolenceNeverRealAudience
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
HumanityHumanHuman BeingsMovie
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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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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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
MyselfNeverReflectWhichConvey
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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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I never really learned photography.
PhotographyNeverLearnedReally
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
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