Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
More Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.