If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
My last experience of film-making was Tickets, a three-episode film in Italy, the third of which is directed by myself. It's not… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
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… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
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