Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

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.

Cameras

Doe

Would Be

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Human Beings

Humanity

Humans

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

Feels

Looks

Subjects

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Culture

Differences

Important

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

Information

People

Theater

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

Cinema

Lazy

People

Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.

Affected

Film

Made

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It’s a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn’t really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

Film

Thinking

Way

Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

Demand

Directors

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.

Down And

Patient

Watches

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Able

Acting

Affected

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Anxious

Appreciate

Asking

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Buddhism

Cameras

Car

Challenges

Character

Children

Cinema

Cities

Common

Country

Culture

Curiosity

Dark

Darkness

Dead Ends

Demand

Differences

Different

Directors

Doe

Doubt

Down And

Dream

Expression

Fake

Familiar

Feels

Film

Football

Fronts

Games

Government

Grateful

Hair

Home

Human Beings

Humanity

Humans

I Believe

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Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

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.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

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

Close-Up has affected later films that I’ve made.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It’s a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn’t really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

Directors don’t always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

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.

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