Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

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• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
• 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 someone…
• I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
• I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
• When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or…
• There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how…
• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
• When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear…
• Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what…
• I never really learned photography.
• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
• A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the…
• Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
• I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
• I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
• I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

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