Cinema Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami notes that no film is truly apolitical; every story carries some politics. He admits he feels nervous when his movies are shown at festivals. He prefers movies that calm the audience rather than using violence to draw attention.
![“I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f25/abbas-kiarostami-2631_cinema_i-didn-t-just-see-myself-as-a-film-direc_3031421.png)
![“I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/abbas-kiarostami-2631_audience_i-am-still-very-surprised-that-i-managed_1350509.png)
![“I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d6/abbas-kiarostami-2631_ambition_i-think-it-was-jean-luc-godard-who-said_3006459.png)
![“When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in…” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/abbas-kiarostami-2631_audience_when-the-film-certified-copy-was-in-the_200718.png)
![“The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e02/abbas-kiarostami-2631_actors_the-film-close-up-made-itself-to-a-large_3127328.jpg)
![“I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school. I was very much intrigued by the story [of Close Up] - it came into my dreams and I was very much influenced by it. So I called my producer and asked that we put aside Pocket Money and start…” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/abbas-kiarostami-2631_children_i-had-intended-to-make-another-film-call_407453.jpg)
![“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 point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/abbas-kiarostami-2631_anxious_it-was-a-film-that-i-knew-that-i-had-see_155328.png)
![“I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.” quote by Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/abbas-kiarostami-2631_anxiety_i-saw-this-french-woman-this-english-man_1627107.png)
