Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
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Morning is white,evening is black,
a gray sorrow
in between. — Abbas Kiarostami
The full moonreflected in water,
the water
contained in the bowl,
and the thirsty man
deep in sleep. — Abbas Kiarostami
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.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I think violence can never be justified.
— Abbas Kiarostami
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
— Abbas Kiarostami
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
— Abbas Kiarostami
If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
— Abbas Kiarostami
You won't believe it but I quench my thirst
by drinking from a mirage. — Abbas Kiarostami
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
— Abbas Kiarostami
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
— Abbas Kiarostami
It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
— Abbas Kiarostami
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
— Abbas Kiarostami
As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
— Abbas Kiarostami
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.
— Abbas Kiarostami
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Autumn afternoon:a sycamore leaf
falls softly
and rests
on its own shadow — Abbas Kiarostami
There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
— Abbas Kiarostami
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.
— Abbas Kiarostami
If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm.
— Abbas Kiarostami
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
— Abbas Kiarostami
In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.
— Anthony Minghella
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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 towns.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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!
— Abbas Kiarostami
Light: the greatest painter and photographer of all. At every single moment of our lives we see different images, different pictures.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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 end - I never do.
— Abbas Kiarostami
It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I never really learned photography.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
— Abbas Kiarostami