208 Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.