All Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
- My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness Cause
- A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… Allows
- If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with… Always Lose
- Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away,… Boundless
- Art would be useless if the world were perfect. Art
- Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions. Emotion
- Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Imagination
- Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. Feelings
- I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a… Alone
- People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger. Bored
- Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality. Based
- An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind. Artist
- No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… Character
- My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… Another Culture
- When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented… Alternative
- Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as… Art
- The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to… Action
- I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman. Bergman
- I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin… All
- The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… Acceptable