Abbas Kiarostami Quotes - Page 4

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• In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Individual Strength, Doe

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

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• I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Blessing, People, Cameras

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

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• In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fashion, Men, Looks

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• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Cities, Village, Towns

  "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.

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• I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Challenges, Acting, Way

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

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• I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Kind

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

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• There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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• I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Important, Students, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Wall, Cinema, Dead Ends

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• I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

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  Responsibility, Men, Anxiety

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

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• It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Light, Intimate Moments, Cameras

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

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• I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Stars, Thinking, Two

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• I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Directors, Asking

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

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• I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Trying, Stories, Film

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• I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.

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  Directors, Looks, Film

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

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• The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.

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  Real, Character, Actors

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

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• It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Film, Anxious, Familiar

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Actors

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

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• I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Fake, Angle, Shots

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

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• While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn't interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the "set", because I thought they would work better in my absence.

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  Car, Sitting, Shooting

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

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• My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side.

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  Home, Car, Office

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

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• Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Iran, America, People

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

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• Therefore, when you see the end result, it's difficult to see who's the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the actors - we just manage the situation.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Directors, Actors, Ends

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

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