I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
Abbas KiarostamiIt is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.
Abbas KiarostamiI 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 KiarostamiFilm is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
Abbas Kiarostami