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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think violence can never be justified.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
- Anyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
- Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a citizen of the world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really learned photography.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eliminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Limit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Businessman
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
- End Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020