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Film Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami
- 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…
- 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 prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in…
- I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
- There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
- I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth…
- I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that…
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