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.
Abbas KiarostamiI do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.
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 prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.
Abbas Kiarostami