The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
Abbas KiarostamiOf the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.
Abbas KiarostamiI really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.
Abbas KiarostamiI 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.
Abbas KiarostamiI think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
Abbas KiarostamiI think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.
Abbas Kiarostami