In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.
You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.
You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.
Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.
Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.
Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.
It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.
The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.
For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.