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Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Culture Voice Limit Film Common

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

Good Environment Easy Living Events

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

Discipline Ideas Song You Know Kind

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

People Way Race Human Human Race

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Time Art Think Too Much Know Want

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

Great Performance Want Act Roles

There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.

Education Good Business Job More

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Change Ignorance Always Afraid

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

Love Me Song Story Place Through

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

Jonathan Levine

Family Moment Remember You Scary

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Work Book Story Better Things Film

I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

I Am Child College Think Thinking

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

Book Short Filmmaker Get Whole Made

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