Abbas Kiarostami Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school. I was very much intrigued by the story [of Close Up] - it came into my dreams and I was very much influenced by it. So I called my producer and asked that we put aside Pocket Money and start something else, and he agreed.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Dream, Children, School

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

• Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Strong, Children, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

• When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they do? I do have children in my films but I find that I reduce and reduce their presence until I have to get rid of them because there's no way that I can direct them." My own thought is that one is very grand, like an emperor on a horse, and it's very hard for a child to relate to that. In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Children, Japan, Way

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

• In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Children, Order, Actors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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