Abbas Kiarostami Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Giving, Contentment, Doe

  "Landscapes of the mind" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

• 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

  Grandchildren, Opportunity, Giving

  "Abbas Kiarostami Wants To Reteam With Juliette Binoche, Talks ‘Like Someone In Love’ & Weighs In On The ‘Innocence Of Muslims’". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

• I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fashion, Giving, Digital

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

• In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Grateful, People

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

• When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Character, Giving

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

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