Andrei Tarkovsky

ISFP

QUOTES

 * "Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema."
 * "Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical."
 * [About Mirror]: "I had the greatest difficulty in explaining to people that there is no hidden, coded meaning in the film, nothing beyond the desire to tell the truth. Often my assurances provoked incredulity and even disappointment. Some people evidently wanted more: they needed arcane symbols, secret meanings. They were not accustomed to the poetics of the cinema image. And I was disappointed in my turn. Such was the reaction of the opposition party in the audience; as for my own colleagues, they launched a bitter attack on me, accusing me of immodesty, of wanting to make a film about myself."
 * "A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books."
 * "Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
 * "My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him."
 * "Never try to convey your idea to the audience — it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it."
 * "Nobody who has ever betrayed his principles can have a pure relationship with life."
 * [Advice to young people]: "Learn to love solitude...to be more alone with yourself."