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
giving his-love needs
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.
artist needs abstaining
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.
theatre needs action
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 leave before the main action starts.
winning people needs
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 something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose
beautiful needs cinema
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.
artist ideas people
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.
letting-go artist ideas
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.
trouble can-do
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
responsibility world harmony
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
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.
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.
editing objectivity subjective
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
reality thinking links
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.