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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.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Tags: result, look, you, work

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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Tags: world, home
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Tags: businessman, get, politician, you
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
Tags: countryside, than, more, true
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.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Tags: people, truth, nature, life
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
Tags: next, feel, people, me
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