Top 49 Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

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

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

I am a citizen of the world.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.