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
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.
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 people danger
People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.
passing-by numbers people
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, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
mean idols people
If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? they have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. [...] If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money
book people different
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
two views people
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
people purpose causes
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness
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
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.
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.
morality truthful ifs
Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.