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Morning is white,
evening is black,
a gray sorrow
in between. — Abbas Kiarostami

The full moon
reflected 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

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

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming. — 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

Following the mirage
here I am at the water's edge
without the feeling of thirst. — 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

[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

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. — 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

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it. — 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

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