When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative … - Andrei Tarkovsky

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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Andrei Tarkovsky

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (. . . ) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

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I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

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

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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.

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Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

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Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

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