Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
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We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
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I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
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No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially or the sake of theoretical discussion.
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The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
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Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
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'Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards'.