This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
Abbas KiarostamiIf you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Abbas KiarostamiI 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.
Abbas Kiarostami