I Have Always Had The Ability To

My Discovery Of Tarkovsky's First Film Was Like A Miracle. Suddenly, I Found Myself Standing At The Door Of A Room The Keys Of Which Had, Until Then, Never Been Given To Me. It Was A Room I Had Always Wanted To Enter And Where He Was Moving Freely And Fully At Ease.

I Could Always Live In My Art But Never In My Life

To Humiliate And Be Humiliated, I Think, Is A Crucial Element In Our Whole Social Structure. It's Not Only The Artist I'm Sorry For. It's Just That I Know Exactly Where He Feels Most Humiliated.

When You Die, You Are Extinguished. From Being You Will Be Transformed To Non-being. A God Does Not Necessarily Dwell Among Our Capricious Atoms.

When We Experience A Film, We Consciously Prime Ourselves For Illusion. Putting Aside Will And Intellect, We Make Way For It In Our Imagination. The Sequence Of Pictures Plays Directly On Our Feelings. Music Works In The Same Fashion; I Would Say That There Is No Art Form That Has So Much In Common With Film As Music. Both Affect Our Emotions Directly, Not Via The Intellect. And Film Is Mainly Rhythm; It Is Inhalation And Exhalation In Continuous Sequence.