Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovskywas a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 April 1932
CountryRussian Federation
Andrei Tarkovsky quotes about
fighting compromise refusal
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
childhood
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
winning men expression
Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.
unrequited-love irritation attachment
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 like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be
bored people danger
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
emotion silent persons
Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
prose screens
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
motivational writing mean
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.
editing objectivity subjective
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
morality truthful ifs
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.
weak invincible seems
The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
spiritual symbolism people
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
bored quality special
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.
trouble can-do
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself