I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience. — 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
The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself,… — 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
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
There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think… — 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
When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a… — 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 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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