سر کلاس با کیارستمی Quotes

“A story starts before we encounter it and concludes long after we have turned away.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Most people live only a single life, but an artist lives many. Every work of art is an all-consuming gift. It takes everything from its creator, but ultimately gives life.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Art sees things in close-up, focusing our attention, teaching us to not cast blame so freely. Art doesn't make judgements, it informs and teaches. The camera allows truth to circulate in places it might not otherwise go.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“It can be invigorating to live within walls and work within restrictions. Such things can oddly, be liberating, as we are forced to learn how to evade and elude. Barriers compel us to react against them and maoeuvre beyond, just as a flow of water changes direction when blocked.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“If God has provided us with one thing, it's the power of imagination. Dreaming clearly has some function, otherwise why would we be capable of it? The ugliness of the world lies before us, whether we want to look or not, but we filter things and dig into our inhibitions, as we dream and fantasize, we come to learn about our true feelings and beliefs and desires. By doing so, we temporarily escape real life.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Look at the world anew each day. Clean out your eyes. Your job is to offer insights, so continue to frame everyday things in new ways that help you, and us, see them differently.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Each of us sees God differently. Some prophets evoke a vengeful and pitiless God, others a merciful one. It was the latter that was revealed to us at school, as we learned to write our first words: water, bread, father. The God I have held within since I was five years old is compassionate and kindly.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“The most effective way of refining you work is to keep it short and simple. "I didn't do anything," explained Michelangelo when asked how he created David. "The statue already existed in the block of stone. All I did was remove everything unnecessary." Rumi advises us not to talk too much, to use the fewest words possible. Consider this idea when telling your stories,when making films, when selecting images, when living life.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“I like my half-finished cinema to be vague. I like ambiguities. I am a filmmaker who asks audiences to make more effort than usual, to bask in temporary confusion, and by so doing express themselves, which is why I lose some viewers along the way. For m, film is about enticing people to look and ask questions, to take the trouble to consider cinema as something other than just entertainment.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“This is a man who can do nothing but his own thing, who could turn his back and be satisfied with spending the rest of his days alone, processing the contents of his mind.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“I delight when the unexpected supersedes planning. Curiosity, improvisation, randomness. We search for happy accidents.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“As we watch the characters in a film and explore the situations they find themselves in, we are reminded of the sweetness and bitterness, accord and strife, folly and wisdom of our own lives.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Every story that moves and interests me has an element of truth to it.”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“My job is merely to make suggestions and talk about my own particular way of doing things, which is one method among many, and which to this day continues to evolve”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami

“Kiarostami, always in search of the unfamilar”
― Abbas Kiarostami, Lessons with Kiarostami