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“The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.”

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Abbas Kiarostami was a renowned Iranian film director born on June 22, 1940. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insight into social reality, making him one of the key figures in the New Wave of Iranian cinema. more

“With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.”

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“I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.”

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“I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.”

Thinking Way Film Life Is Difficult Copies

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“I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.”

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“I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.”

Thinking Said Film Form Life Is Given Shapes Ambition Copies

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“I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.”

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“I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.”

Thinking Hard States Love Is Deny Temporary

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.”

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“There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

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