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I never really learned photography.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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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

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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Bad Believe Cinema Good

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Biography

Nationality: Iranian

Type: Director

Born: June 22nd, 1940

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