Abbas Kiarostami Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Race, Differences, Rays

• When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Different, Culture, Sitting

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

• Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way, but it happened on my way - when I get close to these people, just by the simple intervention of translation I can actually reach them and ask them something, and their reaction is as I expected. I see that the relationship goes so smoothly, and I realize that cultural languages and specificities are nothing but simple obstacles that you can easily overcome. It's obvious that human beings are the same wherever they are.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Simple, People, Joy

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

• Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Voice, Language, Speak

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

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