Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

Abbas Kiarostami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

John Hickenlooper

FailureGovernmentToleranceHigh

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

HistoryObstaclesWorldUnderstanding

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

MeWritingThinkBetterOpinions

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Sting

GrowDignityGrow UpRightUpUs

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Tommy Lee Jones

FearAfraidWhoPreparedOther

I was honestly a Catholic.

Mary Daly

CatholicHonestly

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

HatYouDownMatterFirstAlways

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

Chauncey Depew

GovernmentLawyerAlwaysUnitedBeen

My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Atticus Ross

RelationshipBrotherMeGuitarYoung

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

Philip Baker Hall

RememberYouSayKindMoreNever

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

Suresh Raina

ChangeGoodAloneRespectPeople

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.

Peter Dinklage

NightSaturdayDoingCelebrityBeing

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