In that sense "The Sacrifice" is, amongst other things, a repudiation of commercial cinema. My film is not intended to support or refute particular ideas, or to make a case for this or that way of life. What I wanted was to pose questions and demonstrate problems that go to the very heart of our lives, and thus to bring the audience back to the dormant, parched sources of our existence. Pictures, visual images, are far better able to achieve that end than any words, particularly now, when the word has lost all mystery and magic and speech has become mere chatter, empty of meaning, as Alexander observes. We are being stifled by a surfeit of information, yet at the same time our feelings remain untouched by the supremely important messages that could change our lives.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?

― Louise Bourgeois

Richard Serra | Circuit [Detail] | 1972/1989/2014

Bochum; revisited.

The language of touch is a language in itself. Touch is also subtle and distinctive and holds within itself great refinement of memory.

― John O'Donohue

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

― Markus Zusak

13 Fragments & 3 Narratives from Life; dir. by Jon Jost in 1968

Touch has a memory.

― John Keats

Tatort Essen, Das Mädchen von gegenüber; inszeniert von Hajo Gies, 1977

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

— Pema Chodron

Gundremmingen KRB A, B und C

Wandteller stehen für Heimat, Idylle, Nostalgie, für Windmühlen in Delfter Blau. Was Windmühlen früher waren, sind Atomkraftwerke heute: Energiebauwerke. Ihre ikonenhaften Silhouetten prägen die Landschaft und damit unser Heimatbild. Als Kathedralen einer technologischen Weltanschauung versprachen sie Unabhängigkeit und unendliches Wachstum. Sie sind Zeugnis ihrer Epoche, Relikte des Fortschritts und Zeichen einer Zeitenwende. Die Tage der Windmühlen sind längst vergangen und nun neigt sich die Dämmerung über die Ära der deutschen Atomkraft. Höchste Zeit also, Atomkraft- werke als das zu zeigen, was sie sind: Denkmäler des Irrtums - Hoffnung von Gestern - Folklore von Morgen.

— Atomteller

Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it. And nothing much bothers them after that.

— Charles Bukowski

Eine Bande von Idioten. [...] Ich bin 45 Jahre alt und von einer Analphabetin muss ich mir so einen Quatsch erzählen lassen.

— Klaus Kinski

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Our fragments made us.

— Margaret Atwood

Andrei Rublev, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1966

By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

— Arthur Rimbaud

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The more opinions you have, the less you see.

— Wim Wenders

We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

— Charles Bukowski

The presence of that absence is everywhere.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The mind I love most must have wild places.

— Katherine Mansfield

Andrei Tarkovsky, a genius in life, a myth after his death. A great director who created his own world in cinema, totally understandable and yet much misunderstood. [...] Only the closet ones knew his suffering.

— Denis Trofimov

It's just some feel and others don't.

— Ernest Hemingway

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

— John Fowles

They are so fashionable in Dazzledorf ...

We need at least one friend who understands what we do not say.

— Dr. Sunwolf

Horst Tappert

Derrick, Abschiedsgeschenk; inszeniert von Dietrich Haugk, 1998

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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

— Twyla Tharp

If you hesitate between me and another person, don't choose me.

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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

— Federico Fellini

Jean Michel Jarre, A Journey into Sound

arte tv | 19.09.2015 | 21:45

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

— Haruki Murakami

I have been fighting hard the last month, had some injuries, couldn't do the Tour [de France] and came here with a lot of confidence for the Vuelta, and it was tough to win this stage, but all the work, all the injuries — today was all worth it.

— Fränk Schleck

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The heart has its own memory.

— Albert Camus

Romy Schneider | Klaus Kinski

L'important c'est d’aimer; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1975

We live, as we dream — alone.

— Joseph Conrad

The flaws are part of it. That's the poetry.

— Miroslav Tichý

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You could be seduced to think that art could redeem the world. It cannot.

— Anselm Kiefer

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[...] Wir laufen ein in Düsseldorf City und treffen Iggy Pop und David Bowie. [...]

— Ralf Hütter / Emil Schult

Kraftwerk | Trans Europa Express | 1977

Reminiszenz:

Tatort Essen | Zweikampf | 1974

TEE/InterCity; [Münster-] Albachten, Kilometer 25/2

Jeder Besucher nimmt sich selbst mit in die Räume und jeder Besucher hat eigene Empfindungen, bringt sein eigenes Verhalten mit und denkt unterschiedlich über diese Räume. Die Räume sind ja nicht gefährlich. Die Empfindung bringt jeder Besucher mit. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Räume ein Gefühl entstehen lassen oder die Vorstellung schaffen, dass ein Gefühl entsteht.

— Gregor Schneider