I Don't Ask My Students To Have Studied Film Or Any Education In General. What I Ask Them Is To Come And Sit And Tell Me A Story, And The Way They Choose It And Tell It, For Me, The Best Criteria For Whether They Are Right For Making Films. There's Nothing More Important Than Being Able To Tell Your Story Orally.

-Abbas Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami

I Don't Ask My Students To Have Studied Film Or Any Education In General. What I Ask Them Is To Come And Sit And Tell Me A Story, And The Way They Choose It And Tell It, For Me, The Best Criteria For Whether They Are Right For Making Films. There's Nothing More Important Than Being Able To Tell Your Story Orally.

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Film

I Never Intended To Write Poems, Nor To Be A Photographer, Nor To Be A Film-maker. I Just Took Many, Many Pictures And I Would Put Them In An Album, And Then Some Years Later I Decided To Show Them And Suddenly I Was Called A Photographer. Same Thing With My Poetry. They're Notes That I'd Written In A Book And It May Be Considered Poetry.

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