Ocupation: Film director
Life: January 6, 1954 - March 18, 2008
Birthday: January 6
Death: March 18
When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
source: "Abbas Kiarostami". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
topic: Taken, Trying, Would Be, British Film