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 More Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami More Quotes From Abbas Kiarostami Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing. Abbas Kiarostami actors 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 actors ends directors This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much. Abbas Kiarostami player football thinking 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. Abbas Kiarostami shooting facts way 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. Abbas Kiarostami character men thinking I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films. Abbas Kiarostami film matter thinking I think I really produce my best work in Iran. Abbas Kiarostami iran produce thinking If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it. Abbas Kiarostami businessman iran politician 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 village towns cities 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. Abbas Kiarostami feel fruit grateful tree The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. Abbas Kiarostami daily truth spiritual art The world is my workshop. It is not my home. Abbas Kiarostami workshop home world To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa. Abbas Kiarostami aids me visa country 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 will you poetry time I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean. Abbas Kiarostami good you mind people 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 story feel me people From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing. Abbas Kiarostami something own story want 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 result feel you change There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience. Abbas Kiarostami never violence real life There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country. Abbas Kiarostami some year work country
