Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

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

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• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Age
  • Will
  • Now

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Success

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,Inherits every virtue sound,As emblems of the sovereign power,Like other baubles in the Tower:Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,And so continues till he dies.

  

  Prince
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Prince

• I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Sad

• A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

  

  Patti LuPone
  • Work

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

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad