The best Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

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

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.

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

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.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

When God feels bored, he opens a window and observes the boulevards of Paris.

One of Paris' amenities is that you can be born here, live here, die here without anyone even noticing.

Paris means walking.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.