‘I don’t believe the job of a filmmaker is to excite or move the viewer merely through creating special moments. By simply showing the reality, one can make people think about their own and other people’s acts or behavior and see and accept reality as it is. It’s from this point that the viewer’s duty to complete a work or a film begins. The viewer must be enticed into reflection on himself and the surrounding world. The combination of the filmmmaker’s and the viewer’s mind[s] creates a film which will be more durable, original, and fruitful than a film which merely aims at telling a story and impressing the viewer. This is the most essential difference between this kind of cinema and that of Hollywood. ‘ — Abbas Kiarostami, 10 on Ten.
