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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director.

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Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

Absolute, Art, Said, Spiritual, Symbol

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Dealt, Ignored, Men, Should Have, Things

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Compromise, Fighting, Refusal, Right, Serve

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.

Companions, Dry, Expression, Flexible, Men, Winning

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

Art, Conscience, Express, Ideas, Jobs, Manage

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Art, Convey, Idea, Ideas, Mean, Senseless

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.

Beauty, Films, Giving, His Love, Love, Needs

The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.

Faith, Invincible, Seems, Stalker, Weak

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness

Causes, Films, Help, Live, People, Purpose

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

Common, Idols, Interests, Mean, People, Same

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Everything, Happens, Looks, Miss, Missing

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

Feelings, Unforgettable, Unspoken

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

Can Do, Trouble

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.

Links, Objective, Reality, Subjective, Thinking, Truth

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.

Boundless, Cinema, Numbers, Passing By, People, Whole

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.

Bored, Length, Making, Piques, Quality, Special

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

Art, Beautiful, Ideal, Realistic, Truth, Truth Is

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty

Art, Artist, Sincere, Partially, Beauty

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

Harmony, Responsibility, Rest, World

Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.

Crippling, Culture, Mass Culture, Men, Questions, Spiritual

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