Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

If You Are A Businessman Or A Politician In Iran, You Can Get A Visa As Quickly As You Ask For It.

I Think I Really Produce My Best Work In Iran.

I Think Woody Allen Is Woody Allen, And No Matter Where He Goes He Still Makes His Woody Allen Films.

In My Experience As A Director, I Think There Is Obviously Something Of The Way Men - Maybe That's A Common Point With Shirin - The Way Men See Women In The Film, And The Way These Two Characters See Each Other.

The Fact Of Having This Very New Context, This Unheard-of Way Of Working, For Me Was Very Pleasant. I Didn't Feel That I Was Working, That I Had Any Kind Of Burden To Wear, To Carry. I Really Was Very Happy And Very Lighthearted During The Whole Process Of Making The Film [certified Copy], Of Shooting It.

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.

I'm Still Very Grateful To Digital Cameras In General, But I Didn't Have This Feeling With The Red One.

Using Non-actors Has Its Own Rules And Really Requires That You Allow Them To Do Their Own Thing.

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.

I Can Only Display What I've Been Nurtured With, Which Is This Worldview Which Has Become My View. If I Displayed Anything Different From It In My Work, I Wouldn't Deserve This Heritage.

I'm Not Sure That My Films Show The Reality Of Life In Iran; We Show Different Aspects Of Life. Iran Is A Very Extensive And Expansive Place, And Sometimes, Even For Us Who Live There, Some Of The Realities Are Very Hard To Comprehend.

I Don't Like Reverse-angle Shots - I Find Them Very Fake And Very Untruthful To The Viewer.