Abbas Kiarostami Quotes, Giving Quotes, Contentment Quotes

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

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The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

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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'm interested in.

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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

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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.

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Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

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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 my work!

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It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

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