I Have Thus Decided To Make A

We Worked On 'fanny And Alexander' For Seven Months And It Was An Amusing Production. Still, It Was Very Long And Heavy And So Awfully Complicated, .. And When The Premiere Was Over And Everything Went Well, I Thought, 'that's That.' .

Tarkovsky For Me Is The Greatest [director], The One Who Invented A New Language, True To The Nature Of Film, As It Captures Life As A Reflection, Life As A Dream.

I Know That I Shall Have Lost To The Jungle If I Take A Weak Moral Standpoint Or Relax My Mental Punctiliousness. I Have Therefore Come To A Certain Belief Which Is Based On Three Powerful Effective Commandments: Thou Shalt Be Entertaining At All Times. Thou Shalt Obey Thy Artistic Conscience At All Times. Thou Shalt Make Each Film As If It Were Thy Last.

I Am Conscious About Myself And Everything, And Then Suddenly, Or Slowly, My Conscious Fades Out. Switches Off. And It's Not Existing, And That's A Marvelous Feeling. That From Existing, I Am Not Existing. And At That Moment, Nothing Can Happen To Me.

I Am Very Much Aware Of My Own Double Self... The Well-known One Is Very Under Control; Everything Is Planned And Very Secure. The Unknown One Can Be Very Unpleasant. I Think This Side Is Responsible For All The Creative Work - He Is In Touch With The Child.