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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

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I think violence can never be justified.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Iranian

Type: Director

Born: June 22nd, 1940

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