Abbas Kiarostami Quotes
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
-
My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
-
The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
-
I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
-
I love so many styles of music.
-
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
-
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
-
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
-
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
-
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
-
I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
-
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
-
It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
-
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
-
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
-
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
-
I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.
-
I just need to be me.
-
Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.
-
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
