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Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: iranian
Birth: June 22, 1940 - July 4, 2016

Topics

True More Rural Countryside Made

I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.

Run Any Calls GM Gotten

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

Work Me Reading Interesting Creating

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

Woman Book You Powerful Image Your

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Son Children Blessing People Birth

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Ann Demeulemeester

Work Beautiful Energy You Play Kind

One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Love Culture Curiosity Loved Desire

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

Life Baseball Me My Life You Body

My very first show that I ever did was a show called 'Then Came You'. It became a huge hit - no, it didn't. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman's best friend. I was 27 years old.

Friend Great Best Woman People You

As far as exercise, I play a lot of lacrosse and rugby, and I'm an avid distance swimmer. Nope, none of that is true. I do walk a lot, though.

Good Start Enjoy Ice Ice Cream Sure

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

Love Day Love Is Sorry Saying You

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Tradition More Write Out Up Fiction

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they love you any less or care about you any less.

Work Love Women Children Think Care

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