Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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.
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.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
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.
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
I am a citizen of the world.
I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
I never really learned photography.
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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Abbas Kiarostami
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BirthDate
22 June, 1940
DeathDate
04 July, 2016
Country
Iran
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