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Andrei Tarkovsky
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„I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.“
„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.“
„For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.“
„Objectivity can only be the author’s and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.“
„Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.“
„Everything is conditioned by necessity of one kind or another; and if it were actually possible to find a person in conditions of total freedom, he would be like some deep water fish that had been dragged up to the surface. It’s curious to reflect that Rublyov worked within the strictures of the canon! And the longer I live in the West the more curious and equivocal freedom seems to me. Freedom to take drugs? To kill? To commit suicide?“
„The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.“
„It seems to me that the individual today stands at a crossroads, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the existence of blind consumer, subject to the implacable march of new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a new way that will lead to spiritual responsibility, a way that ultimately might mean not only his personal salvation but also the saving of society at large; in other words, to turn to God.“
„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.“
„No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art.“
„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.“
„The meaning of religious truth is hope.“
„An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.“
„We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.“
„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.“
„It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people’s ideas.“
„An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.“
„History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.“
„The whole concept of the avant-garde in art is meaningless. I can see what it means when applied to sport, for instance. But to apply it to art would be to accept the idea of progress in art; and though progress has an obvious place in technology — more perfect machines, capable of carrying out their functions better and more accurately — how can anyone be more advanced in art? How could Thomas Mann be said to be better than Shakespeare?“
„All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.“
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