Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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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 next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

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

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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception 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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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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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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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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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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