Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Edmund White
- Reading
- Distance
- Say
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

Carlo Goldoni
I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

Olivia Colman
- Up
- Live
- Beautiful
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

Edie Campbell
- People
- Time
- Done
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

Washed Out
I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Bai Ling
- Time
- Long
- Nature